西班牙裔联合会讲话
女士们，先生们，晚上好。
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen.
能获得这个奖项，我感到无比荣幸。
It is a great pleasure to accept this award.
我感到很荣幸能得到西班牙裔联合会的认可。
I feel honored to be recognized by the Hispanic Federation.
但这一奖项确实属于开放社会基金会。
But this award really belongs to the Open Society Foundations.
联合会和我的基金会有很多共同点，并且关注着同样的问题。
The Federation and my foundation have a lot in common and share the same concerns.
多年来，我们在移民、保护无证移民和投票权等重大议题上一直保持着合作关系。
We have worked in partnership over many years on important issues such immigration, the protection of the undocumented, and voting rights.
最近，我们联手援助了波多黎各和波多黎各人——无论是在岛上还是在美国本土的同胞。
Most recently we have collaborated to assist Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, both on the island and on the mainland.
让我借此机会简要介绍一下这项工作，我也以个人身份参与了其中。
Let me take this occasion to tell you a little about that work in which I also participated in my personal capacity.
多年来，我们一直积极支持波多黎各的公民社会，但在飓风玛丽亚过后，我们加倍了努力。
We had been active is supporting civil society in Puerto Rico for some years, but we redoubled our efforts after the Hurricane Maria.
这并不是因为我们擅长传统的灾害救助。许多组织在这方面做得比我们好得多。
This was not because we are good at traditional disaster relief. Many organizations do this far better than we do.
这是因为飓风“玛丽亚”暴露了波多黎各与美国其他地区之间不公平关系的遗留问题。
It was because Maria exposed the legacy of the unfair relationship between Puerto Rico and the rest of the United States.
这种关系剥夺了波多黎各人在华盛顿的政治发言权。
This relationship has deprived Puerto Ricans of a political voice in Washington.
这使得那里的人们容易受制于国会和白宫的反复无常。
It has left the people there vulnerable to the whims of Congress and the White House.
也许最重要的是，它剥夺了波多黎各公民社会应对紧迫挑战所需的氧气——这些挑战包括贫困、健康状况不佳、教育落后、住房不足、债务过重，以及使用化石燃料导致的电价昂贵。
Perhaps most important, it has deprived Puerto Rico’s civil society of the oxygen it needs to take on pressing challenges – such as poverty, poor health, poor education, inadequate housing, too much debt, and expensive electricity that uses fossil fuels.
这就是为什么我们的救灾形式是支持地方草根组织，帮助他们为波多黎各社区的权利而战，帮助他们推动透明度和问责制。这就是为什么我们正在帮助当地组织为波多黎各开发一种新的、可持续的经济模式。
This is why our form of disaster relief has been to support local grassroots organizations, to help them fight for the rights of Puerto Rican communities, to help them press for transparency and accountability. This is why we are helping local organizations develop a new, sustainable economic model for Puerto Rico.
我们正在帮助波多黎各人在华盛顿发出更大的声音。我们正在帮助他们重建一个更具韧性、更便宜、并使波多黎各成为绿色新政一部分的电力系统。
We are helping Puerto Ricans amplify their voices in Washington. We are helping them rebuild an electricity system that is more resilient, cheaper and makes Puerto Rico part of the Green New Deal.
以我个人身份，我也承诺帮助波多黎各社区建立政治影响力，尤其是在佛罗里达州。
In my personal capacity, I have also made a commitment to help the Puerto Rican community develop political muscle, particular in Florida.
这些努力的重点一直是帮助波多黎各人当选公职，以及动员波多黎各选民。
Those efforts have centered on helping to elect Puerto Rican to public office and to mobilize Puerto Rican voters.
感谢联邦，也感谢 OSF 的所有同事。
Thank you to the Federation and also to all of my colleagues at OSF.