In Barcelona’s expanding tourist economy, street vendors are the targets of racist demagoguery. This project depicts the dignity and struggles of a street vendors’ union. This project depicts the dignity and struggles of a street vendors’ union. Intermittently throughout the day, Barcelona’s tourist areas are temporarily occupied by street vendors. West-African people stand behind knockoff football jerseys and D&G handbags, Bangladeshis next to umbrellas covered in shiny earrings. The Blanket Project documents their struggle. By working with the Popular Union of Street Vendors and the community organisations, the project counters a near-constant stream of misinformation and unconfirmed reports that are uncritically reproduced in both political discourses and mainstream media accounts of the street vendors’ lives and work.