Salim Rashamwala

So, Marc, when Lamín says he's selling on the street, what exactly does he mean?

And even when I was little, he'd import things as a side business and sometimes he'd enlist me to help sell them at garage sales and flea markets.

So I'm always interested in the techniques and tricks of getting people to buy things street side.

How common is it?

The way he's telling the story is fun and energetic, but what they have to do is in response to something that's actually dangerous.

Lamine shared a pretty terrifying story with us where a Montero was possibly killed by police in 2015 in a city called Salou, about an hour and a half away from Barcelona.

Police entered the home of a Montero early one morning.

It's easy to forget that there's an actual danger to these situations of quasi-personhood or, I don't know, quasi-citizenship that the law can create.

Did the protests actually change anything for the Monteros?

Meaning they were sick of being excluded from the labor market and the social systems, all because the law made it hard for them to work.

It's like recognizing the language that a system has, right?

Even though you're not officially allowed into that system, you can start changing things.

It's almost like they didn't wait for permission in the best possible sense.

After the break, Lamine and other Monteros collectively push all the way back against the system, taking what they learned from street vending and adding a whole new set of tools.

The logo sits in the center of the t-shirt, and at a glance, it's simple.

Two curved rectangles forming the image of a floating piece of cloth that almost looks like it's being set on the ground.

But the shapes also form the outline of a boat, a part of their migration story.

And now they had their first product ready, these shirts with a distinct logo on it.

And they were ready to introduce themselves to the world.

So how did they do that?