![[SIGN-ON STATEMENT] An assault on the foundations of democracy](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/free-lady-ann-salem_nujp-400x250.jpg)
This is what the Duterte government, through its National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, has mounted by red-tagging not only the alternative media but even critical segments of the dominant media. The baseless accusations against alternative media...
![[Statement] State security flout the law by abetting Celiz’s lies](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-113-400x250.png)
There is a video on YouTube that features Jeffrey Celiz, the so-called "Ka Eric" touted as the "star witness" of the National Task Fore to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, in which he accuses National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Director and past...
![[Statement] On the termination of ABS-CBN’s YouTube channels](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1604367458-Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-9.10.45-AM-546-400x250.png)
At around 7:30 am on Tuesday, November 3, YouTube terminated the ABS-CBN News and ANC channels over some yet unspecified violations of the video sharing site's terms of service. By afternoon, they had been restored even as the Philippine Star's Janvic Mateo reported...
![[Statement] Rolly is a dreadful lesson on press freedom](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wp-cover-400x250.png)
Nothing has better illustrated the great disservice to the nation the government, particularly the House, has wrought through the shutting down of ABS-CBN than Super Typhoon Rolly's deadly rampage through the Bicol region. This is not to denigrate the usual yeoman's...
![[Statement] Persistent impunity is society’s, not just media’s, loss](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/signal-2020-11-02-131324-400x250.jpeg)
November 2 is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. And, of course, this day continues to remind us of how deeply entrenched the culture of impunity is in the Philippines, where 189 journalists have been murdered since 1986 with hardly...
![[Statement] NUJP TO PARLADE: The burden of proof is on the accuser](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screenshot-102-400x250.png)
In an October 26 appearance on One News' The Chiefs. Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, as usual without proffering any proof, claimed communist rebels have "infiltrated lahat ng media outfit...
![[Statement] A disgrace to journalism](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/signal-2020-10-25-181702-400x250.jpeg)
Shame on the Manila Times for running an editorial cartoon that parrots the mindless red tagging by government of critics and dissenters. The cartoon, titled "The many faces of local communists," shows a communist rebel apparently painting masks to be worn by figures...
![[Statement] BJMP has no business preventing media from work](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screenshot-78-400x250.png)
As Nasino gives her statement to the media, jail guards attempt to whisk her away pic.twitter.com/nHuaqDbsrw — Bulatlat (@bulatlat) October 14, 2020 The National Union of Journalists condemns personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology who attempted to...
![[Statement] SC ruling on GMA cameramen a win for media workers’ rights](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/11425103_10155750378020374_6826026720713464363_n-400x250.jpg)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails the victory of 30 cameramen and assistant cameramen who the Supreme Court ordered GMA Network to reinstate with full backwages, allowances and other benefits from 2013, when they were illegally dismissed, to...