Spanish For Social Change

Greetings Friends! We are planning for an historic moment. An estimated 20,000 grassroots organizers, workers, union members, community me...

here is an article published in the NYT back in November, but Ricardo just brought it to my attention and it's relevant to the last pos...

marica : fag, faggot The thing is that this term is used much more ubiquitously in Spanish, at least in Colombia. You could argue for render...

good subtitling here, particularly of the testimony of the 12 year old boy at the beginning. Josh did a good job here of not being too lite...

This video is so fun! Check out the interpreter booths and the funny earpieces they use at the UN. They've been using that same sort of...

from the Albert Einstein institute translation procedures for translating texts on nonviolence: Some of the English terms in this field do ...

murio desangrado: he died from blood loss (even better suggestion from comments: bled to death) One I hope you never have to say, but a goo...

brinconear: to skip May you skip with joy in the new year! this is a word I was reminded of by this fabulous letter, shared here with permis...

Speak up! speak out! let me hear you! : !Hagase escuchar! : (CHANGED to alza la voz! thanks to Atenea - see comments) This one comes thanks...

I am disgusted that huge sums of money are being misspent to send poor young people from the United States with few other options at home to...

My apologies for the silence - it is the end of the semester and I'm swamped. Above is a video of me interpreting a couple of weeks ago...

I am headed to the vigil this week! Proud to be part of the largest event against US Empire inside the belly of the beast. Again we will be...

el precio de la canasta basica: the cost of basic nutritional needs (for a family) NOT the basic basket, or even food basket or shopping bas...

people before profit: la vida antes del lucro This is my own invention. I got it from going *really* sideways - or what's it called whe...

so-called : mal llamado Just to clarify last week's post , I am not suggesting that you dramatically change the tenor of a speakers word...

I've posted about this term before , but want to call to your attention that there is a similar tragedy, and growing scandal, in India -...

My friend Jill made this great short video about medical interpreters. Can't figure out how to embed it, but it's 15 minutes long a...

cheapened: abaratado as in, the Nobel peace prize.

enslaved people: gente esclavizada Props to my compa Michael Rosen, who not only gives fantastic salsa classes, but even in a short intro in...

gente = people vs pueblo = THE people thought of it from seeing this comment at loquesomos.org: "This is what we have to confront. Thes...

accumulation by dispossession: acumulación por desposesión What's up with the US wanting to put in seven new military bases in Colombia ...

How's that for jargon? New to me. It seems to mean “all types of interlingual transmission, such as translation, interpreting, and subti...

Cinturon de miseria - slum belt This refers to the ring of slums around many (most?) cities in Latin America. Slum being rendered by Sebasti...

the commons: el en-común commonism: el en-comunismo One for the lefty theory geeks. Props to my compa Sebastian (te fuiste!), who (with a c...

vereda (Col): dispersed rural settlement In my previous post I argued for rendering it as township - which led to some interesting conversa...