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The Union of Journalists of the Philippines-University of the Philippines (UJP-UP) is the student and research arm of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), one of the leading media guilds in Asia. Based in the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, it is an academic political union of students committed to advancing pro-masses and pro-student ideals and promoting advocacy journalism and media ethics.

‘DUTERTE PANAGUTIN, BATO ARESTUHIN’LOOK: UP Diliman students from various colleges and organizations protested Thursday,...
14/05/2026

‘DUTERTE PANAGUTIN, BATO ARESTUHIN’

LOOK: UP Diliman students from various colleges and organizations protested Thursday, May 14 in front of Vinzons Hall, UP Diliman, to demand accountability and justice from the Marcos administration for its continuous failure to hold corrupt officials responsible for their crimes.

They demanded for International Criminal Court (ICC)-wanted Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s arrest over his role in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war that killed thousands of innocent Filipinos.

“Imbes na sagutin nila ang hatol nating mamamayan, sila ang nagbibigay ng mga protective measures sa kanilang alipores katulad ni Bato Dela Rosa,” Panday Sining UP Diliman Chairperson Gaia Mauricio said.

“Karapat-dapat ba na ang mismong mga mamamatay-tao ang bigyan ng proteksyon?” Mauricio added.

The senator has reportedly fled from Senate premises earlier today after the shooting incident on Wednesday night, May 13.

Hours before the shooting, Dela Rosa pleaded not to be turned over to the ICC after reports that the National Bureau of Investigation will attempt to arrest him on Wednesday.

Students also called for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment for her alleged unexplained wealth, misuse of P612.5 million in confidential funds and bribery.

“Kung napunta sana ito sa pondo ng edukasyon, edi sana, lahat ng iskolar ng bayan ay nakararanas ng sapat na academic at student spaces, sapat na academic units, sapat na scholarship,” said Wilbert Pillos of Saligan sa CSSP.

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The articles of impeachment against Duterte was transmitted to the higher chamber during the Senate shooting incident.

It is now up to the new Senate majority when the chamber will convene as an impeachment court. The majority was formed after 13 senators, including Dela Rosa, executed a Senate Coup that ousted Sen. Vicente Sotto III.

New Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano, a long-time Duterte ally, will preside over the vice president’s impeachment trial.

Text and photos by EJ Cruz




14/05/2026

WATCH: UP Diliman students from various colleges sing their call to arrest Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa following the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in a protest held Thursday, May 14, in front of Vinzons Hall, UP Diliman.

Dela Rosa has reportedly fled from Senate premises earlier today, May 14.

Students condemned President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration’s protection of its corrupt officials.

Text and video by EJ Cruz



11/05/2026

HOUSE IMPEACHES VP SARA

WATCH: 257 of 318 members of the House of Representatives voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte for the second time. 25 voted against, while nine abstained.

The articles of impeachment will be transmitted to the Senate, where newly elected Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano will preside over the trial.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The House clarified that 257 voted in favor of the impeachment, while 25 were against and nine abstained. Changes have been made to this post to reflect the corrections.

Text by Nimuae Lexine and EJ Cruz
Video by Nimuae Lexine

LOOK: The plenary session for Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment has begun with 250 of 318 members of the House p...
11/05/2026

LOOK: The plenary session for Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment has begun with 250 of 318 members of the House present.

The plenary is expected to deliberate and vote on Duterte's impeachment on the grounds of violations of the Constitution, bribery, corruption, betrayal of public trust and death threats to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

106 members of the House must vote to impeach before the articles of impeachment are transmitted to the Senate for trial.

Meanwhile, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano took over the Senate Presidency after 13 senators voted to oust Sen. Vicente Sotto Monday, May 11.

Cayetano has been known as a long-time ally of the Dutertes, running as former President Rodrigo Duterte's mate in the 2016 presidential elections.

Text by Nimuae Lexine and EJ Cruz
Photo by Nimuae Lexine

LOOK: Progressive groups gathered Monday, May 11, to protest for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment in front of t...
11/05/2026

LOOK: Progressive groups gathered Monday, May 11, to protest for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment in front of the House of Representatives south gate.

House members are expected to deliberate and vote in today’s session for Duterte’s impeachment after the House Committee on Justice unanimously decided, 55-0, to approve the vice president’s impeachment report.

The lower chamber must secure at least 106 votes for the trial to proceed to the Senate.

Groups also called for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s impeachment for his administration’s role in massive corruption.

“Dapat din natin pangunahan na kailangan din natin i-impeach si Marcos Jr. dahil siya ang pinakahari ng korapsyon,” said former Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamay.

Sulat at kuha ni Alfonzo Solivares

Negros 19 autopsy initial findings show signs of mishandling — forensic pathologistby Athena Altiche and EJ CruzMay 7, 2...
07/05/2026

Negros 19 autopsy initial findings show signs of mishandling — forensic pathologist
by Athena Altiche and EJ Cruz
May 7, 2026

Initial findings from the autopsy of five Negros 19 massacre victims found a misidentified body, missing and mislabelled clothes, Forensic Pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun said in a press conference Thursday, May 7, at the Student Union Building in UP Diliman.

Out of 19 victims brutally massacred by the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), five were flown from Negros Occidental on April 25 and 26 for the autopsy requested by their kin.

Fortun said three of the bodies were already in moderate to advanced decomposition when they arrived, while two were in the early stages.

One of the bodies, initially named Errol Wendel, was found to be misidentified when compared with his characteristics.

“Everything was off,” Fortun said. “'Yong body length hindi tumugma sa height niya. 'Yong ngipin hindi tumugma. 'Yong mga peklat hindi tumugma.”

Even the clothes labelled as his, according to Wendel’s sibling, were not something he would wear.

Fortun said the clothes would have helped identify where they were shot, but she only received two bags — one of which was mislabelled.

“So you ask that question, ‘What happened? Bakit ganun?’ Nawala 'yong damit tapos 'yong labeling niyo,” Fortun said.”May nagsabi sa akin: nilagyan lang daw ng number tapos binigyan ng pangalan. Was there anything done to document, to make sense of these bodies, kung sino talaga sila?”

She also said some families were not shown the faces of their deceased loved ones. They were just released to them without basis of their identification.

Wendel’s family has yet to recover his remains more than three weeks after his killing.

Fortun appealed to the victims' families to allow the remaining bodies to be autopsied, so they can examine each one to obtain more information about the massacre and find Wendel’s remains.

She said the condition of the victims’ remains and the lack of proper documentation of the scene have made it hard to fully uncover what happened at this time. Fortun said her team will soon release a full report detailing their analysis.

“Proper recovery, handling, disposition of the dead bodies, the bodies are evidence. You must hear the version of the dead. Hindi puwedeng 'yong buhay lang ang pakikinggan mo,” Fortun said.

She added that it’s hard to do her job in the Philippines, where the killers are also the ones who control the investigations.

“We are not doing science-based investigation, and nobody questions,” Fortun said. “’Pag hindi kayo nagtanong, nakakalusot. Walang accountability. Patayan lang nang patayan. And anong tawag dito? Impunity.”

Fortun said that fact-finding teams, led by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), will be conducting an investigation in Toboso, Negros Occidental.

In a statement by CHR on April 26, it said it has initiated an independent investigation through its office in the Negros Island Region. The Commission urges all parties “to cooperate fully with the CHR investigation, preserve evidence, ensure unimpeded access to information and sites, and comply strictly with [International Humanitarian Law] and human rights standards.”

Rights group Karapatan echoed the call for an independent investigation during a press conference last April 29 with advocates and relatives of the victims of the Negros 19 massacre, where they discussed alleged violations of International Humanitarian Law committed by the AFP.


05/05/2026

‘HUSTISYA PARA KAY ALYSSA ALANO’

PANOORIN: Taas-kamaong pinagpugayan ng pamilya, mga kaibigan, kapwa mag-aaral at mga kasama sa pagkilos si Alyssa Alano habang inaawit ang kantang “Ang Internasyunal” bilang pagwawakas ng programang “Parangal para kay Alyssa: Kikay at Bayani ng Sambayanan” ngayong Martes, Mayo 5 sa Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center, UP Diliman.

Tinanggap ng pamilya ni Alano ang parangal na sablay at sertipiko ng pagkilala para sa kahusayan at alaalang kaniyang iniwan.

Patuloy pa rin ang panawagan ng mga progresibong grupo at mga nagmamahal kay Alano ng hustisya para sa Toboso 19.

Sulat at kuha ni Athena Altiche



TINGNAN: Binaha ng suporta mula sa pamilya, kaibigan, kapwa Iskolar ng Bayan at iba pang nagmamahal kay Alyssa Alano ang...
05/05/2026

TINGNAN: Binaha ng suporta mula sa pamilya, kaibigan, kapwa Iskolar ng Bayan at iba pang nagmamahal kay Alyssa Alano ang Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center ngayong Martes, Mayo 5, upang pagpugayan at alalahanin ang kaniyang naging buhay.

Panawagan ng mga dumalo ang hustisya para kay Alano at sa Toboso 19 na walang habas na pinaslang ng mga militar sa Negros Occidental noong Abril 19.

Binigyang-buhay ng mga progresibong grupo, tulad ng Concerned Artists of the Philippines at Panday Sining, ang parangal ni Alano sa pamamagitan ng pag-alay ng musika, sayaw at poetry reading.

Inaasahan ding magbigay ng mensahe sa programa ang kaniyang mga nakasama sa pagkilos bilang lider-estudyante, mga kaibigan at kapamilya.

Sulat ni Athena Altiche
Kuha nina Ails Vera at Athena Altiche



TINGNAN: Inalala ng mga estudyante ng UP Diliman ang kabayanihan ni Alyssa Alano sa isang exhibit na puno ng kanyang mga...
05/05/2026

TINGNAN: Inalala ng mga estudyante ng UP Diliman ang kabayanihan ni Alyssa Alano sa isang exhibit na puno ng kanyang mga larawan, medalya at personal na kagamitan sa labas ng Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center bago magsimula ang parangal para sa kanya ngayong Martes, Mayo 5.

Kasalukuyan ding isinasagawa ang libreng silk screen printing sa mga t-shirt na nagtatampok ng kanyang mukha, kalakip ang panawagang “Justice for Alyssa.”

Sulat at kuha ni Ails Vera



‘MABUHAY SI ALYSSA ALANO, MABUHAY ANG MARTIR NG SAMBAYANAN’PANOORIN: Nagmartsa ang mga estudyante ng UP Diliman kasama a...
05/05/2026

‘MABUHAY SI ALYSSA ALANO, MABUHAY ANG MARTIR NG SAMBAYANAN’

PANOORIN: Nagmartsa ang mga estudyante ng UP Diliman kasama ang pamilya ni Alyssa Alano patungo sa Cine Adarna upang bigyang-pugay ang “kikay at bayani ng sambayanan” ngayong Martes, Mayo 5.

Bago ang programang “Parangal para kay Alyssa: Kikay at Bayani ng Sambayanan”, nagsagawa ng walkout mula sa mga classroom patungong Palma Hall ang mga mag-aaral mula sa iba’t ibang kolehiyo upang manawagan para sa hustisya kay Alano at sa Toboso 19.

Bitbit din ng mga estudyante ang kampanya laban sa anilay “bulok” na sistema ng pamahalaan.

Sulat at kuha ni Ails Vera



Today, May 3, the Union of Journalists of the Philippines - UP commemorates World Press Freedom Day with a firm commitme...
03/05/2026

Today, May 3, the Union of Journalists of the Philippines - UP commemorates World Press Freedom Day with a firm commitment to protecting journalists and media practitioners.

The Marcos administration has repeatedly touted an “improved” state of press freedom in the country, evidenced by a decline in the number of killings of journalists. This, however, is a thin benchmark for freedom, especially when various forms of repression remain a pervasive issue in the daily lives of journalists.

As we commemorate World Press Freedom Day, we refuse to celebrate a ‘peace’ built on the silence of the press. We call for the decriminalization of libel, an end to the weaponization of terror laws against journalists, and for the government to properly enforce safeguards and operational laws for the safety of journalists in the country. In the first place, these calls should not even exist in a democratic country that supposedly acknowledges the freedom of the press in its Constitution.



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