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‘Lodi’ hold forum on press Dandanac

freedom, free expression

patnugutan February 25, 2018 Baguio City

People’s SONA (Baguio City)

By JEOFFREY MHAR LARUA

www.nordis.net

BAGUIO CITY — Tackling issues on press freedom and “fake

news”, a group of nationalist artists and writers, held a
forum February 22, at the University of the Philippines
Baguio.

Organized by the local chapter of the nationwide arts and

media alliance, Let’s Organize for Democracy and Integrity
(LODI), the forum aimed to help people appreciate their Featured Stories
right to information and expression and the truth in the Makan a la Pinoy: Crispy binartek a
time of massive disinformation. pasayan

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“JUANA CHANGE”. Mae Paner, an artist and activist, talks about for self-determination (2/3)
“Creative Protest” during the “Forum on Truth Telling in the Time
Continuing Cordi people’s struggle
of Fake News,” organized by Let’s Organize for Democracy and
for self-determination (1/3)
Integrity (LODI) ti Baguio at UP Baguio on February 22. Photo
courtesy of Kimberly Joy Alejo/Outcrop

Opinion Makan a la
Inday Espina-Varona, one of the guest speakers in the said Editorial: Free Pinoy
forum said that the Duterte administration and its education is not
Makan a la
govenment funded, well-oiled machinery of lies and a dream
Pinoy: Crispy
misinformation has been leading an assault against the binartek a
Bandillo:
press and the people’s right to free expression. She Terminated for pasayan
reiterated that any attack against journalists is an attack the nth time
against the people right to information.
Choiced Cuts:
Health and
“Let us not call them fake news, let us call them what they
migration
are, they are lies, outright disinformation,” she said. Makan a la
Ilocandia Pinoy: Kabkab
Rumblings:
Varona
Apay a rehimen
further said
US-Duterte ti
that there is
ipukpukawda?
other way to (1/3)
combat lies, Makan a la
Weekly Pinoy: Piña-
Re ections: Zucchini
Incarnational Carpaccio
model of doing
mission
disinformation and misinformation but to tell the truth.

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She also encouraged the public to fact check and not to Makan a la
believe everything on face value. Pinoy: Kabkab
Makan a la
Pinoy: Chicken-
All That Fits:
Varona noted that Duterte’s “rage” against journalists tofu sesame
Identity and
critical of him is proportional to his fear. resistance

“He fears a free journalist, he fears a free people,” she As The

Bamboos Sway:
added.
Nutriasia, a
Makan a la
microcosm of
Tonyo Cruz, a blogger and journalist who also spoke during Duterte’s
Pinoy: Thai Red
the forum said that the Duterte administration’s campaign Curry paste
unfu lled
to silence the press is not new. He said that silencing the promises
press and curtailing freedom of espression has always
Bandillo: Test of
been in the arsenal of all tyrants.
sincerity

“Marcos did the same thing before when he shut down Statements:

news outlets, student publications, silenced voices,” he Journalism is

not a crime
said.
Isardeng ti
It can be recalled that when the late Dictator Ferdinand atake laban
Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972, he immediately kadagiti

closed down media institutions that were critical of martial nainsigudan a

babbai!
rule.
Statements: On
Cruz pointed out that Marcos like other tyrants around the Prof. Gill
globe was toppled by people power. He said that this is the Boehringer

message of the EDSA uprising on February 25, 1986; that a

well-informed and organized people can end tyranny.
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Tonyo Cruz, a blogger and columnist, urge the

Activists hold relief operation in Rizal
audience to ght disinformation misinformation
Kodao Productions, August 21, 2018
during the “Forum on Truth Telling in the Time of
Fake News,” organized by Let’s Organize for Manila residents march vs
Democracy and Integrity (LODI) ti Baguio at UP impending eviction threat Manila
Baguio on Feb. 22. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Today, August 20, 2018
Joy Alejo/Outcrop
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illegal drug trade involvement – NPA
intellectually superior than the tyrant we have now, and we Northern Samar Eastern Vista,
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Cruz said everyone can contribute to putting an end to contractual workers; groups show
tyranny. outrage Eastern Vista, August 16,
2018
Actress Mae Paner, more popularly known as Juana Change
“The Lumad are caught in a war that
called on artists to engage and lend their voice to those
isn’t theirs” Eastern Vista, August 16,
silenced by the present administration’s violent and anti- 2018
people policies. She called on artists to step up and use
their craft to tell the truth about the present STATEMENT: Drop all charges vs.
journos, no to attempted censorship
administrations true nature.
by NutriAsia Altermidya, August 1,
2018
Paner also related her weight loss journey to her way of
protest. “When I was still 275 lbs, there came a point I
questioned why I kept on doing this [protesting],” she said. Cordillera Day 2017
“I realized that as we create a new and better [version of
supplement
ourselves], we are creating a new reality for our country.”
Live out the courage of Kalinga
heroes
“The power of your own narrative — that’s part of the
equation in achieving the change we want,” Paner said. She The people’s Cordillera Day strives
encouraged creative protest. for genuine regional autonomy

CPLA remains a State culpability

Paner, in 2017, faced threats from the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) after using a military uniform for her What we, the people, mean by peace

protest. She also mounted the play “Tao Po” which Pamangkin ng Pangat*
re ected stories of victims of Duterte’s drug war. #
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