Guerrilla Media Collective

Good translation is a powerful catalyst for change through cross-cultural knowledge sharing. Guerrilla Translation is an activist translation and general communications collective. We believe that a translation’s quality should equal that of the original work, so our high quality translations are made by thoughtful humans, not software. Guerrilla Media Collective is cooperative agency providing translation and communication services and a media collective creating a multilingual knowledge commons upholding open-source, global idea sharing. Our aim is to enrich the international conversation about potent strategies for positive change while also addressing the cultural and labor-related problems endemic to the creative and digital industries with a carefully crafted governance and value accounting model. We want to preserve the crafts of translation, editing, illustration and design, and support the craftsperson by creating a friendly working environment, a sustainable way of working, and final results that are exciting to read and inspiring to share. Our connection to the Commons Transition movement positions us to model more equitable, cooperative business and governance structures for the millions of precarious workers worldwide, engaged in creative production.