With the theme “Change. Move. Achieve: Moving forward through Social Media” about 1000 participants from Philippine National Police, National Defense, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force, academe, media, college students from various universities and CSOs were present during the 3rd Social Media Summit organised by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Read more…
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) was one of more than 200 civil society organizations that extended its hand in calling for support and solidarity to reject amendments to HRC32 draft resolution on the protection of civil society space. The draft resolution spells out the essential ingrediants for States to Read more…
Coalition Welcomes Duterte Plan to Issue EO on FOI STATEMENT OF RIGHT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW! COALITION 23 May 2016 The Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition, a network of organizations and civil society leaders pushing for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for the past fifteen Read more…
Dutertismo Should Address – Not Contribute to – the Climate of Impunity Preventing Rhetoric from Becoming Reality in Respecting Rights Though it is still two weeks before President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is formally proclaimed as the country’s next Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief, his electoral victory has been apparent early on, just Read more…
[Press Statement] Tomorrow, April 30, 2016, is the 79th anniversary of Filipino women’s suffrage. We cannot allow our gains to be pushed back, especially by national candidates like Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. We want change — the comprehensive and wide-ranging kind of change. Like majority of Filipinos, we are disgusted Read more…
[Press Statement] Women’s groups today blocked traffic at the corner of Tobias and Timog streets to express resistance to neo-fascism. Dubbing the action as “Women Resist the Neo-Fascists,” the leaders of around eighty (80) women stated that the action is to dramatize how they are already being gagged and forced Read more…
Every year, we celebrate the International Women’s day all over the world, marked by incredible activities, events, projects and traditions. To mark the 105th International Women’s Day, over 25 women’s organizations marched together from Doroteo Jose Metro Train Station to Mendiola in Manila. Below is the Press Statement released on Read more…
I’ve been invited to be part of a panel of reactors in a session on Safe Whistleblowing at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France on November 19. Below is the transcript of my 5-minute intervention. My organization the Foundation for Media Alternatives is based in the Philippines, Read more…
Introduction Social media[1] serves as the Internet to majority of Filipino online users. Over 80% of the Philippine Internet population uses social media. In Universal McCann’s 2008 Wave 3 study on social media, the Philippines has the highest penetration of social networking among Internet users at 83%, compared with the Read more…
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual event observed around the world to celebrate Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). To kick-off this year’s SFD celebration in the Philippines, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) College of Engineering, through the combined effort of the College of Engineering Managers of Read more…