Spanish For Social Change

fantastic video! which Argentinian tv refused to air. here they call it la megamineria a lo abierto. what term have you been using? and how...

sufragios y coronas: funeral prayers and wreaths. I was very proud to interpret for Yessika Hoyos this morning at a national labour convent...

planes de vida: plans for life, vs life plans I've seen this phrase, common in Colombian social justice movements, rendered as life pl...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD Join GGJ in supporting Language Access at the USSF The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance is committing $500 to sup...

stakeholders: partes interesadas Wikipedia in english defines as: those entities within or outside an organization which: a) Sponsor a pr...

I've posted twice before about campesino Human Rights Watch recently put out a report on the "new" paramilitaries in Co...

Another useful reminder from the ATA Chronicle article in the December issue on the pitfalls of long consecutive mode in the courtroom, ...

working group (or sometimes comité is more appropriate if it is an ongoing group) NOT worktable or, as I recently heard it rendered, work s...

I couldn't resist posting about this one more time because I really liked the rendition in this article : "the body count scandal...

One of the things we can do to improve translations for social change is to educate our movements on how to write (and edit) documents so th...

artivist: artivista according to the (longer) English wikipedia definition : Artivist is a portmanteau word combining " art " an...

I haven't found a great rendition of the word arenga itself - rallying cry just has a less powerful ring to it. But check out the gre...

One of the skills you need as an interpreter is being able to understand different accents, mumbling, and voices in general. One fun (and so...

I keep posting about this term because it drives me crazy. It is such a dangerous euphemism! I ran into another proposal for what to call ...

The ATA Chronicle had a good article in the December issue on the pitfalls of long consecutive mode in the courtroom by Janis Palma. Som...

(from the classic movement song in the above video) no, no, no basta rezar, hacen falta muchas cosas para conseguir la paz: no, no, it'...

funny video about the different meanings of pendejo and coger. from a priest no less! from the fabulous narco news .

this video is from a great campaign to try to save interpreting services in Washington state and allow interpreters union organizing rights....

Professional interps reading this, forgive my stating of the obvious, but those of you movement types breaking in to interpreting, here'...

solidarity: solidaridad. what I'm writing now to ask you for. This time, the traffic changed, and they weren't able to force a car...

judicializaciones (Colombia): bogus/trumped up/false criminal charges As is detailed in this short video, the idea is not only to send a mes...

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...