Spanish For Social Change

Accountability: Rendicion de cuentas; Responsabilidad por; Responsabilidad a (to hold accountable: responsabilizar) There are three senses o...

Si Se Puede!: Yes We Can! There are lots of other versions, but this catches the spirit of it and also works well as a chant.

lockout: cierre patronal A lockout is a work stoppage in which an employer prevents employees from working. This is differentiated from a...

detras de nosotros, estamos ustedes: behind us, we are you I can't take credit for this one - I saw it in an email. It's the title ...

empower: potenciar, apoderar, empoderar The dictionary says to empower is to give someone else power (I empower you to do it). In that sens...

outreach: promoción Kenny mentioned that he uses difusión de información; información al público; educación/educar al público but those all ...

grassroots: popular Thanks to Kenny for reminding me to put this one up. I run into folks screwing this one up all the time, though usually...

femocrat: femocrata a member of the gender technocracy (tecnocracia de género) That later term was coined by autonomous Latin American femin...

Queer: Queer (but if you have a chance, sneak in LGBT to cover your bases, and if you're doing simul and by some miracle have a long pau...

ableism: capacitadismo my invention. much faster than "discriminacion contra los discapacitados" when you're doing simultaneo...