Spanish For Social Change

At this year's vigil to close the School of the Americas I helped to coordinate a fantastic team of professional interpreters who donat...

Here is a sample shpiel I made up for use this year at the workshops held as part of the vigil to close the School of the Americas.  This ...

The training is run by the organization The Voice of Love, and the training is called Healing Voices.  They are currently running their s...

animador/a: organizer as in, "no tenemos lideres, todos somos animadores" I wouldn't always go the other direction with th...

If by chance you're a Spanish language learner in the Vancouver area, or know folks who are, you're in luck.  Nicole Benson of Esper...

the countryside? a rural area? the bush? the hills? ok, I don't think I've ever used the hills, but those different options i...

I can't resist reposting th e article below from Think Progress .  I mean really, talk about a dumb use of machine translation . Don...

Here's a cool way to grill yourself on new terminology suggested in a recent ATA chronicle: Instead of the various flashcard apps, try...

Last week I posted a link to a queer terminology review , this week it's a link to this great article that goes over the do's and do...

Think you're good at LGBTQ terms? Do you know what the difference is between a demisexual and a panromantic? Even if you do, check out...

The Committee on Globalization and Social Changeis putting on a very cool event: Occupying Language with Dario Azzellini and Marina Sit...

There are still a couple of slots in the training at Wayside , in Virginia, on Sept. 28-30, led by my fantastic compas, Ricardo Tijerina and...

Sometimes bilingual people who I explain the interpretation translation distinction to try to tell me that in Spanish traducción means int...

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...