Spanish For Social Change

Have you heard of the caravan for peace?   It is a historic first in North-South organizing for peace and justic...

the worlds of both translation and language learning could be about to change significantly. truly. watch this video and be blown away by ...

After 35 years, the Dutch ministery of Health just stopped paying for professional interpreter services in health care.  Interpreters resp...

the yellow press.  as rendered in this interview of Mariela Castro by Democracy Now! , which is anything but.

As I've posted before , I don't like the term slum. Shantytown isn't much better as a term, but somewhat. The other option is ...

General assembly in the way the term is used in the occupy movement is usually asamblea popular , not general - though they are often just...

this video gets particularly useful around minute four

soberania semillera: seed sovereignty This concept was new to me when I heard it recently but instantly made sense.  It's more speci...

I learned from this article about the Wayuu, uno de los pueblos originarios en Colombia that traditionally engages in what is often call...

persona con discapacidad auditiva as with all forms of disability, it is more respectful to put the word person first, both in English a...

bullying: matoneo escolar (often shortened to just matoneo) At the recent educators conference I interpreted for I heard several Mexica...

referral: remisión; derivación as in, information and referral line, or referral to a specialist. derivación is very spainish :) (ie, Sp...

grounded: arraigado Props to my compa Kirsten from Codev . We're interpreting for the IDEA network conference "Teaching for Trans...

drones: drones I far prefer using drones than than the option aviones no tripulados or vehiculos aéreos no tripulados. As my PhD adviser, ...

icebreaker: actividad de desinhibicion, 'dinámica', dinámica rompehielo I always heard these referred to as just 'dinámicas'...

wow, a trailer for a movement event? and there's a spanish version too. now all we need are some volunteers to help us make these even...

If you live in the US or Canada I hope you've been exposed to some of the wonderful campaign to ban the R word and replace "retard...

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...