Anonymous artists rename metro stations in Palestine solidarity campaign

• Redretro has altered metro station signs across Spain, Mexico and Germany, using public transport infrastructure to draw attention to Palestinian rights.
• Interventions include renaming Madrid’s La Latina station “Free Palestine” and Mexico City’s Tacuba station “Nakba.”
• The network’s work has extended to more than 80 stations, linking Palestinian solidarity with wider struggles against displacement and Indigenous land dispossession.

An anonymous artists’ network is turning metro stations into platforms for pro-Palestinian activism, altering familiar signs to bring messages of solidarity into the daily lives of commuters across Europe and Latin America.

Known as Redretro, the network has carried out interventions at more than 80 stations in Spain, Mexico and Germany, replacing or modifying station names with stickers and other visual alterations that challenge conventional public messaging and draw attention to Palestine.

In Madrid, activists transformed signs at the La Latina station to read “Free Palestine,” while in Mexico, the name of the Tacuba station was altered to “Nakba,” referencing the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 establishment of Israel.

By placing these messages in heavily used public spaces, the interventions bring Palestine into everyday urban life, reaching commuters who may encounter the altered signs as part of their regular journeys.

The campaign also connects Palestinian solidarity with other social and political struggles. Redretro’s interventions have addressed housing displacement and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, including through messages such as “Maricarmen” and “Aztec Dispossession,” according to the campaign’s account.

The approach reflects a form of street-level activism that uses familiar surroundings to challenge dominant narratives without relying on conventional political platforms or institutional channels.

Rather than confining protest to demonstrations and public gatherings, the artists repurpose existing urban infrastructure to make political messages visible in spaces traversed by thousands of people every day.

Redretro’s work highlights how anonymous, independent art can become a tool of public dissent, using brief visual interventions to keep Palestine and broader questions of displacement, historical injustice and liberation in public view.

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