May 2012
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Spanish Translators Needed
We would like to being translating tweets on the #YoSoy132 hashtag from Mexico’s burgeoning student strike. We’ve already set up the infrastructure to do this through @TTRMexico, but we are in immediate need of Spanish translators.
If you can translate between Spanish and English or Spanish and French and would like to help translate tweets—even just a little—please contact Joshua...
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Translating Tweets: Night One
Our first night of translating French tweets from #ggi, #manifencours, #casserolesencours, and other hash tags about the protests in Québéc was an overwhelming success! Here’s a selection of our translated tweets from last night and this morning. Be sure to follow our ongoing coverage at @TTRCanada:
TT @QuebecLeaks Lawyers stand up against law 78. Protesting in front of Montreal...
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Nous sommes tous des Québécois! We are all...
Marie-Claude Plourde has translated the the Chilean students’ statement of solidarity with Québéc protestors from Spanish into French! And she’s actually a certified translator, so it’s much better than the Mickey Mouse operation we’re running over here!
You can find the original post over at Profs contre la hausse ( which mean “Professors Against the Raise [in...
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Translating the printemps érable: Infringement on... →
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May 27, 2012
Original French Text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2012/05/20120527-182354.html
A “local inquiry” was opened to determine why certain police officers of the Montreal police (SPVM) posted to the protest Saturday night were photographed and…
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We Are All Québécois: A Statement of Solidarity...
Below is a statement of solidarity from Chilean academics and student leaders with the ongoing student protests in Montréal, Québéc, Canada.
This statement was originally written in Spanish and was translated into English by Liza Sabater (@blogdiva). The version here has been lightly edited by Joshua Eaton (@joshua_eaton).
For background on the Québéc protests, check out the Wikipedia article....
