By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – One year after the killing of broadcaster and environmentalist Dr. Gerry Ortega, his family and colleagues reiterated their call for justice. Ortega was killed on January 24 last year in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Four alleged gunmen and their accomplices have been charged for the murder but the suspected [...]
Sunday, January 15, 2012By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com We are in the age of information technology. But really, what kind of information is available to most Filipinos? With the corporate media , it’s hard to know if you are getting the whole truth or just a side of the story. During the violent demolition of homes in [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Relatives of journalists killed in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions supported the call for President Benigno S. Aquino III’s administration to work faster towards the achievement of justice especially for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. The massacre on November 23, 2009 claimed the lives of [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2011By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: On 2nd anniversary of Ampatuan massacre: Aquino told to end impunity MANILA – “There are no Ampatuans if Arroyo did not coddle warlords and private armies.” This was the statement of Hustisya!, an organization of families of victims of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Ordinary people like me do not understand why our judicial system is like this. Can it be reformed? It is difficult to accept it would take 20 years or 200 years for the case to be resolved.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Workers of a radio station based in Davao City are gearing for a strike after the management insisted on a moratorium on increases in salaries and benefits. Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Davao Employees’ Union (RDEU), filed a notice of strike at the Department of Labor and [...]
Sunday, October 2, 2011Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly www.nordis.net Reposted by BAGUIO CITY – Media practitioners and journalism students joined the seminar-workshop on child protection organized by The National Council for Children Televisions (NCCT), Philippine Press Institute (PPI) and United Nations International Labour Organization (UN ILO). NCCT Executive Director Frank G. Rivera said the activity aims to forge an [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CTIY—Activists and progressive organizations urged media practitioners to join them in the campaign to put an end to vilification due to political beliefs through fair and responsible reporting. In a roundtable discussion on vilification or red-labeling with media practitioners initiated by Dinteg (Cordillera Indigenous Peoples’ Legal Center) and [...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011MANILA – A radio commentator was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen, Monday at Alicante village, EB Magalona town, Negros Occidental. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines called for an investigation on Jimena’s killing to determine the motive of the crime and to be able arrest his killers. Niel “Lito” Jimena, 42, host [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — The libel case filed against the publisher and the editor in chief of Baguio Midland Courier was recently dismissed. In a 13-page decision Tuesday morning, Regional Trial Court branch 61 Judge Antonio Reyes acquitted Cecil C. Afable, editor in chief and Charles Hamada, publisher of libel [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Theodore Te, lawyer and an advocate of freedom of information, noted that in the Aquino administration’s version of the Freedom of Information bill exceptions are longer than the list of information subject to mandatory disclosure.
Sidebar: Access to information more difficult under Aquino
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
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