January is finally over, and with it a month of earthquakes and attacks against humanity. They are not new, it’s true, but no one can deny the intensification of actions by those in power that deny life to those who already exist by a miracle. A neo-fascist wave is sweeping the planet, but also—and this is not wishful thinking—there are streets that are filled not only with rage, but with political organization and solidarity.
In Mexico, for example, the campaign “A Rumor Is Spreading” is flooding social media with those who are weaving underground and fighting against the cynicism that leads to inaction under the argument that the monster is so big there is nothing to be done.
But sitting back, or conforming, is not an option for the collectives that will gather on February 7th in Plaza Palestina Libre, before the Juárez Hemicycle, in the Alameda Central of Mexico City. “A Rumor Is Spreading”. It is said that there is a resounding sentiment that unites not only in protest, but also in the fight against the abandonment they want to impose on us.
The “we are not alone” rallying voices who reject US intervention in Venezuela; denounce the genocide in Gaza; insist that Greenland is not for sale; stand in solidarity with the suffocated Cuban people; and, of course, those who denounce the atrocities of ICE in the United States and join the protests in Minneapolis, the current capital of the American people’s insurrection that has given the entire world lessons in humanity, even though the price continues to be open repression and the murder, so far, of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two Americans shot dead by federal agents.
“A Rumor Is Spreading”, uniting in Mexico those who defend water against hoarding and the World Cup-style projects of dispossession, those who fight against gentrification and evictions, and the families searching for the more than 130,000 people who have disappeared in the country. “A Rumor Is Spreading” against the attacks on Zapatista communities and against the murder and criminalization of land defenders, against femicide and also against the murder of journalists.
For them. For us. We must not stay home.
Original article by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez, La Jornada, January 31st, 2026.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.