Spanish For Social Change

citando la fabulosa Amy Goodman (traducida por el equipo de DN): "¿Qué es la neutralidad de la red? Es el principio fundamental de ...

This was the translation offered in the following great article about cut-flower workers in the savanna around Bogotá (the vast majority of ...

Caught a bad mistranslation in the New York Times today.  In an article about the latest twist in the Colombian election they say that Santo...

I'm on the road so just a brief note this week to say that if you are (or want to be) an interpreter in the US please join, or at the le...

I've blogged asistencialismo before as charity, which works in some contexts and I think is clearer that welfarism...

I have blogged repeatedly about the various options for translating the term campesino. Rural poor , which is one that does not get used oft...

thanks to @dualectico on twitter for pointing me to this great explanation of it en un minutico

Acción afirmativa does get used in Colombia, but afirmación positiva is much more common.  It has much higher googlage along with the word C...

What goods and services do you/ could you barter in your community? Que vivan las economias alternativas!

This neologism seems to get used in two ways in English, but I think anti-boycott is probably the most common.  The wikipedia entry USED...

I imagine very few if any of you would ever have reason to use this, but as a Quaker I'm proud that this glossary exists (thanks to Pabl...

In this video Andrew Cliff presents several ways you can practice and improve your simul skills.  Thanks to cross-cultural communication...

art by Rini Templeton riniart.org English language activist terminology has changed significantly in the course of my lifetime, and ev...

Nicaraguan politics today is just so bizarre.  I just read this fabulous portrayal of how surreal it all is, which I highly recommend.  In...

Pero ojo, stand up can be tricky, and isn't always best rendered as defiende.

I like this rendition, used in the important nacla article below, forwarded to me by mining watch and well worth a read. (and note, I co...

In other countries in Latin America this actually gets called secuestro express in Spanish. I don't think paseo millonario would be wid...

congrats to cross-cultural communications on their fabulous new community interpreter site! I am particularly impressed by the fabulous we...

I got alot of "que guapa"s recently for carrying around a heavy backpack in Cali.   Just goes to show words don't always mean ...

tocayo: name brother Rather than call another Sara by her name, in Spanish I would often call her tocaya. Since this concept doesn't...

Sometimes this is rendered as cuidado, but I like the plural version, since these chains involve so many forms of caring.  The s could also ...

this is a repeat post , because I saw this term mistranslated several different ways today (including war bounty!) in tweets honoring today ...

In Mexico a plantón is a somewhat long term encampment, a protest camp occupy style. The Mexican teachers union (the largest union in the Am...

according to wikipedia, "A sit-down strike is a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed ...

a regular fanny pack is just a canguro, at least in Colombia