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# Homeless are human beings
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/homeless-are-human-beings/
- Published: 2002-02-15T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:02:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import, Homeless

*By H. Rosenfeld Santa Monica*

Editor: I enjoy seeing your daily photo take on the Middle East; one day from Palestine, the next from Israel. But your caption to the front page photo the other day about a homeless man who “dives into...” a garbage can for food.

Are you referring to “dumpster diving?” Many artists in Santa Monica and Venice communities like Gerry Fialka and friends find some of their best stuff doing this “media ecology.” But your caption makes a homeless man sound more like a seagull or a pelican “diving” down into the sea for food. This poor soul is a human being and his actions could be afforded a more humane appellation don’t you think? Perhaps something like “Hungry man digs for fortune or food neglected by those so blessed but unconscious as to leave food instead of finishing it or at least handing it to the homeless...” etc.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 15, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021502.pdf?ref=smdp.com)