Spanish For Social Change

there has been a lot of coverage of these in the media here lately because the government has been squeezing the water balloon and moving...

thanks to Siobhan Ring for asking this one.   this is for outreach work in the States, so can anyone think of a simpler and easier to und...

as I've posted before, commodities are often rendered as mercancía, yet in some contexts productos basicos works much better. I was...

procurador general: inspector general There was recently a heated debate about the peace process between these two men, described here ,...

I've posted about this one before , but I was moved to repost this because I saw the cognate (judicialization) used again and want to em...

the fabulous newsletter sent out by Cross Cultural Communications (which I highly recommend subscribing to) pointed me this week to the la...

al estilo Adbusters . reseña de libro en castellano sobre sabotaje cultural aca.

yes, interpreters do get this.  three deep breaths helps (in through your nose, out through your mouth twice as long).  wiggling my toes ...

This is a broader term than really exists in English.  It encompasses formal lobbying, to grassroots lobbying, research, media work, to marc...

I learned this term from the fabulous Diana Ojeda, who recently published this great short article about green grabs in Bogotá.

Cross Cultural Communications Seeks Beta Testers for Online Training CCC is recruiting beta testers for one or more of their 10 6-hour ...

As in, pay for your climate sins with a likely to be bogus offset indulgence.  Need I say palm oil plantations? If you don't know what I...

lo que tenemos en Colombia, y la razon por la cual hay negociaciones de paz. Como lo dice IPC:  "Gobierno e insurgencia estarían ll...

autonomia alimentaria: food autonomy As Arturo Escobar puts it "In Colombia for instance, movements prefer to use autonomia alimentar...

greenwashing: lavado verde (as in, forget the other horrible things we do, we just put a figleaf of environmentalism over it all by saying i...

aquelarre: coven a term being reclaimed by feminists and used in Spanish to describe not just women who call themselves witches but more w...

There is a book out about translation and social change, Translation, Resistance, Activism.   It came out in 2010 but I just discovered it, ...

judicialización/ montaje judicial = malicious prosecution on trumped up charges These have been increasingly used against human rights def...

Cross- cultural communications has a series of manuals for different types of interpreting.  They just released a new workbook with exer...

fracking = mineria por fracturación hidraulica (and thereafter fracturación if doing simul) As Mother Jones puts it, we are fracking our ...

"desde las entrañas del monstruo" is a phrase famously first used by Jose Martí and now often used by US activists working again...

living well vs living the good life (or living the high life if you want the distinction to be super clear) This is a distinction freque...

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...