Spanish For Social Change

piquetero: piquetero (member of the Argentinian unemployed workers movement) Hoy el wiki lo define asi : Los piqueteros son activistas, que...

blockade - bloqueo (In Mexico sometimes tope de carretera - can also be piquete in Argentina - see note below) Barricade; road block - bar...

Unlike translation, interpretation is a performance art. You have to practice your scales - but then when you're on, it's not about ...

I am such a geek that sometimes while watching subtitled movies I write down translations I either like or don't. I recently sat through...

Guate - canche Panama - fulo/fula CR - macho (macha para mujeres?!) Nica/El Salvador - chele/ chele Mexico - güero/güera Colombia - mono/...

proceso: organizing process, organizing project Often proceso just gets rendered literally, as process, as it is in the video above by the N...

botín de guerra: war trophy "El cuerpo de la mujer no es botín de guerra" is a slogan of the Ruta Pacifica de Mujeres in Colombia...

mochacabezas: decapitators It's a higher register in English but I can't think of another way of putting it, other than maybe the he...

tejido social: social fabric Though I prefer the more poetic weave, it sounds odd in English. We can certainly talk about weaving together ...

se ve, se siente, X esta presente (often los estudiantes, las mujeres, etc): You can see it, You can feel it, We the X are here. Often said ...

falsos positivos: false positives/ extrajudicial killing Extrajudicial Killing In Colombia from Witness For Peace on Vimeo . The above is ...

ni perdon, ni olvido! : never forgive! never forget! Yes, the exclamation marks are necessary since this is usually shouted with great passi...

This one not only explains the differences between different legal systems, but has handouts (in the appendixes) that can be used by attorne...

fantastic super short spot highlighting the need for medical interps

to trouble (a concept): problematizar As in, with my research I am trying to trouble how we do solidarity, in particular around the colonial...

Below is the text from a hand out that I prepared years ago for educating pro bono attorneys in Seattle. Feel free to use all of part of it....

cultivos de pancoger: food crops fanTAStic video by Witness for Peace well worth watching! Shoveling Water from Witness For Peace on Vimeo...

community kitchen my apologies for the silence - I'm in the midst of transitioning from Bogota to Vancouver, currently floating around t...

community cafe (UK) or community cafe or kitchen (Canada). NOT a soup kitchen comedor infantil - kids cafe, or kids kitchen. Comedores po...

potluck: comida comunitaria This is actually my own invention, since gatherings of people where each person is expected to bring a dish of f...

I have yet to read this book, but it looks fantastic. She looks at things like how attention is shifted to the court interpreter in proceed...

simple: sencillo yes, you could use simple too, but since one of its most commonly used definitions is also tonto, as well as ordinary and c...

I will get back to posting terms soon, but one more meta comment for now: What I tell organizations, when they ask me about it, is: Machine ...

Not a term, but a recommendation to watch movies with subtitles whenever you can, to see how they translate terms. I know, annoying to read ...

There's really no way of getting around studying lists to improve your handle on obscure terms (I have spent far too many hours of my li...