Spanish For Social Change

chucha is one of those words with what seems like a thousand meanings depending on the country. Below is a video making fun of these sorts ...

wordreference has added new search bar add ons for firefox since the last time I blogged about the tools I use or if you prefer, they have ...

back channel: un canal de comunicación discreto This came up in this interview of former Colombian president Pastrana on the tenth annivers...

warlords: señores de la guerra unfortunately it doesn't sound as good if you're just talking about ONE warlord (it's Carlos Ca...

speaking of the fabulous Wayside, they have a training coming up March 23rd - 25th, 2012 1100 Mill Pond Road Faber, VA 22938 (434) ...

politiquería : influence-peddling this rendition caught my eye in Adam Isaacson's report on Montes de Maria over at the fabulous Just t...

I've been mulling over the 'language justice' terminology used by a lot of my compas who organize to make our movements more m...

leaders: lideres y lideresas I've been seeing this version in more Spanish language movement documents - recently in several from Bolivi...

indigenista: indigenist over on my other blog ( decolonizing solidarity ) I posted the story of three international solidarity activists fr...

in my last post I shared a resource for organizations looking to be more multilingual in organizing, meetings, etc. along the same lines, ...

if you work with or for an organization that wants to be more multilingual, check out this fantastic resource by my friend Alice. if the li...

if you were impressed by the translator's notes by them that I posted , you might enjoy reading the full translator's preface and ...

from part two of that fabulous translators intro by Nate Holdren and Sebastián Touza (part one here ): ... This brings us to a second tran...

check out tons of fantastic interpreter training resources here such as how to take notes for consecutive - something not enough activist i...

conejo: loophole Que vivan los estudiantes! "On November 9, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos seemed to retreat in the face of ...

ally: aliado this is an obvious one, but what may not be obvious is how the term gets used in movements in the US and Canada (and the UK?)...

great way to promote the use of professional interps, way to go Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators!

This is the first of 10 one minute videos - the next in the series should pop up when this finishes playing or you can open it in youtube an...

mainstream media: los grandes medios (corporate media: medios corporativos) any thoughts on how to render the slogan "be the media...

due to dissertation deadlines this week I am reposting part one of this brilliant translators introduction by By Nate Holdren and Sebastián...

resguardo: indigenous collective property I have been rendering this term as reservation, but I like this, especially since they don...

watch this gorgeous video, it will leave you inspired. maybe even inspired to subtitle? Many thanks to Michael Joseph for the translation be...

Translators get a bad rap as traitors. Quite the opposite, to translate is to be an ally. As social justice interpreters in particular we am...

do no harm: acción sin daño Not quite literal, but this is how folks in Colombia who are working with Mary Anderson's framework are tra...

The movement to close the US Army's School of the Americas has come up with this great neologism - see their description of it at the bo...