#TranslateTheMovement

Communication.
Relationships.
Resources.

That's what we are aligning.
Ane and Roze interpreting at a convening in Senegal
If we can't communicate, we can't coordinate!
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Movements don't fail for a lack of good ideas. They fail because people stay disconnected from themselves and from each other.

They fail because when survival is threatened, when money “seems” scarce, we get scared and lean into the status quo.

We can't see an alternative.

The powers that be move propaganda across language, culture, communities and countries at the same time. While movements resist in one language.

Organizers know that doing the work in one language isn't getting the results we need. But doing it in more than one costs time and money that feels beyond capacity. That's the bind.

#TranslateTheMovement is closing that gap.

Narrative Organizing and Storytelling

Resonance Network's narrative organizing reconnects people with themselves and their imagination for what's possible. People stop believing there's no alternative when they're connected to a community of people imagining and building alternatives in real time.

Multilingual Community Building

Jamii Linguists brings people and movements together through multilingual community building that scales what movements can do: resist what we have and build something better. Our local communities are already multilingual. Our movement work is language work. Community-centered interpreting, translation and language learning, and unforgettable multilingual spaces, in person and online, that shift how people organize.

We ain't gonna get free in one language!

The people building multilingual community.

Team Jamii at a Black Feminist convening in Senegal held in English, French, Portuguese and SpanishJamii Linguists at Creating Change 2026Roze and Jamila in Puerto Rico in front of Spanish and English channel signsA sign reading This is a Multilingual SpaceJamila presenting at Creating ChangeJamii Linguists with the Okra Collaborative at a retreatRoze, Ane and Jamila together in SenegalA Jamii Linguists Language Exchange on video callJamila and Kim at the Spanish Intensive in Washington DCJamila in Paris at a multilingual gatheringRoze interpreting in SenegalWe Govern campaign artworkJohn, Kata and Jamila on a Jamii Linguists video call
Somebody has to hold the communication so everybody else can hold the work.


Right now reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, reparations, environmental justice, work to end gender-based and sexual violence, our food systems, voting rights, and grassroots mobilizing is all under attack.

Our money is already funding our oppression. Let's move money to build something better.

We ain't gonna get free in one language.

What we're asking for?

$25A MONTH

We need all hands on deck. Instead we lose people at the door, because the event post, the website, the emails and the Zoom meetings were all in one language many people couldn't understand.

Resonance Network is a network of over 3,000 Black, Indigenous, immigrant, women, femme, trans, and two-spirit people and their co-conspirators who are building a world beyond violence, a world rooted in mutual care, where all people live in dignity and all beings can thrive.

Jamii Linguists is a Black-Queer-femme-led transnational network that spans four continents and more than ten countries. Interpreters, translators and language workers across the African diaspora, in English, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese and Spanish. Since 2016. Our network of partners also supports this work in various Indigenous, African and Sign languages!

Jamila and Roze interpreting with handheld microphones at a gathering in Boriken

Monthly donations make our work more sustainable!

Organizing often happens in one language, in places where neighbors can't understand each other.

That is the gap Jamii Linguists and Resonance Network are closing together. We're worldbuilders, interpreters, and language workers, building multilingual spaces so people already mobilizing separately can finally coordinate.
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Ten years in, we have never started a single year with a full budget that covers both the work and the language it takes to do it.

Monthly donors are how that changes. Any amount works. $10 a month, $50 a month, or once if that's what you've got.

Monthly gifts are split evenly 50/50 between Resonance Network and Jamii Linguists. These unrestricted funds are what let us plan ahead, sustain our team, pay people to support the work, and say yes when somebody calls with an urgent need and no budget.

Our goal is 5,000 monthly donors at an average of $25 a month. That funds this work for a full year.

Every donation helps, one-time gifts included. We're asking you to tap in and build with us into 2027.

Your gift makes planning, relationship weaving, community workshops,
and interpreting sustainability all year long. And as a monthly donor, you are part of the community.
Many of the activities and spaces we convene are freely accessible to you.

Help us get to 1,000 monthly donors by December 21, 2026.

We'll celebrate together in a live multilingual Zoom event at the beginning of 2027.

Do you know a business or funder who could make a one-time donation of $5,000 or more? Email ttm@jamii.co.

If you can't give, send it to one person.

Someone you know wants to know this exists. Sharing it is worth as much to us as a gift. It's how almost everybody reading this found us.

Follow @translatethemovement, @jamii_linguists and @feelresonance.

Jamii Linguists+Resonance Network

#TranslateTheMovement is held by Jamii Linguists and Resonance Network.

Gifts to #TranslateTheMovement are not tax deductible.