Archives / 2002 campaign / August 2003 capture
The campaign against the exploitation of homeless people in “Bumfights”
The original article protested videos that treated people experiencing homelessness as material for degrading entertainment.
What the earlier page addressed
The August 2003 capture preserves a campaign page about the “Bumfights” videos. It objected to the exploitation of people experiencing homelessness and linked readers to petitions and advocacy contacts.
The page also collected a statement by Representative Earl Blumenauer and contemporary reporting about calls for an investigation. Those accounts belong to the controversy of the early 2000s; they do not establish the outcome of every allegation or later proceeding.
Reading the campaign in context
The article’s central concern was the treatment of vulnerable people as entertainment.