Spanish For Social Change

Pueblos Originarios: First Peoples A term that I had rarely heard in English for indigenous peoples (note the importance of the s and the en...

bastón de mando: (ceremonial) staff of authority Kudos to CNN for showing this clip of activist video - it has forced Colombia's preside...

waterboarding = el 'submarino'; asfixia "simulada" (?!) con agua The mainstream media claims that it is "simulated...

concientizar: raise awareness segun wiktionary (check out their conjugation table): provocar que alguien tome conciencia de algo. relatedly...

desplazado: displaced person; person who has been displaced (ie. forced to flee their home, land and community) the latter takes longer to s...

solidarity: solidaridad Yes, yes, this one is obvious, but I'd like to point you to a good tactic when working on translations - compari...

asistencialismo: charity On proz I found cult of dependency, and welfarism - neither are quite it, and I don't think would be well unde...

cognitariado: cognitariat (image from the fab phdcomics ) This is a term invented by Franco Berardi, alias Bifo¸quien describe esta "c...

more online tools for translators - with descriptions taken directly from a list posted at Dumb Little Man Dictionary.com Dictionary.com ...

beachhead : cabeza de playa Well I for one wouldn't have guessed this would be a literal translation, but what do you know - it is. And ...

token: cuota I've often wondered how to say token , you know, the one woman on the panel, the one person of color, the one youth - not t...

jaque: check By now you must have heard of the spectacular rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the three U.S. mercenaries (no, I don't think th...

global village: aldea global Segun wikipedia , "es un término posiblemente acuñado por el sociólogo canadiense Marshall McLuhan . Est...

miembra: member yes, yes, I know, the Real Academia does not recognize this as a real word. and what do you know, there are hardly any wome...

The Firefox search bar is a wonderful thing. I use Firefox because of the beauty of open source , but I also love it for making amazing tra...

Procurador General: Inspector General; Attorney General I've usually seen Procurador General rendered as Attorney General, but on Colomb...

wildcat strike: huelga loca (Col) A wildcat strike is a walkout that is not authorized (or supported) by union leadership. Often definitio...

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señalado: singled out, fingered (better options?) No, this great video doesn't use this term, but a friend who is helping the fabulo...

mainstream media: medios dominantes de comunicación This rendition caught my eye in the article Traducción y compromiso by Manuel Talens at...

the belly of the beast: las entrañas del monstruo; el corazon del monstruo; las entrañas de la bestia I hear corazon far more in social just...

an injury to one is an injury to all: un daño contra uno es un daño contra todos This famous IWW ( wobbly ) saying is widely used throughout...

espantabobos: drizzle not really a social justice term, but one of my favorite expressions - and wow, wouldn't it be bad news if this ...

solidarizar: be/work/struggle in solidarity with I was asked to by Ana to come up with a translation for this, I agree with her, fantastic v...

open source: codigo abierto the full word is really source code. funny how the code gets dropped in En, and the source in Sp. feeling depr...