Californians for Population Stabilization
{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Californians for Population Stabilization, Inc.
| logo = CaliforniansPopulationStabilizationLogo.png
| logo_size = 195px
| abbreviation = CAPS
| registration_id = C0912758 (California)
| tax_id = 94-2581509
| formation = {{start_date|1979|3|12}}
| formerly = Zero Population Growth - California, IncorporatedName change, March 5, 1986, California Secretary of State.
| website = {{URL|https://capsweb.org/|capsweb.org}}
}}
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is a non-profit California organization founded in 1986 which works to "preserve California's future through the stabilization of our state's human population". CAPS was the former Californian branch of the Zero Population Growth (ZPG) organization.{{cite book|last=Coates |first=A. Peter|title=American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land|publisher=Univ. of Calif. Press |year=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanpercepti00coat_0/page/237 237]|isbn=9780520249301 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanpercepti00coat_0|url-access=registration }}
Overview
Its aim is to help advance state policies and programs designed to stabilize the population at a level which they feel "will preserve a good quality of life for all Californians".[http://www.capsweb.org CAPS website] It asserts that the current growth of population is "unsustainable" and contributes to a growing strain on the environment and infrastructure.{{cite web |title=Environmental Concerns |url=https://capsweb.org/environmental-concerns/ |website=CAPS}}
Immigration
CAPS supports immigration reduction. In 1993, CAPS filed a lawsuit against Hewlett Packard alleging that HP was violating California labor laws and paid residents of India who came to the U.S. below-market wages as contract programmers. The lawsuit was first publicized on CBS's 60 Minutes. CAPS claimed that such wage practices would drive down wages for U.S. workers.Computerworld, October 11, 1993 p. 110 CAPS ultimately lost the lawsuit.{{cite court|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1389802.html |litigants=Californians for Population Stabilization v. Hewlett Packard Company |court=Court of Appeal, Sixth District, California |date=1997}}
CAPS has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an "anti-immigrant hate group".{{cite web |title=Dustin Inman Society |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/dustin-inman-society |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 August 2024 |language=en}} Until 2017, CAPS' director of public affairs was a documented neo-nazi.{{cite web |title=Californians for Population Stabilization Hired Documented Neo-Nazi Parker Wilson |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/23/californians-population-stabilization-hired-documented-neo-nazi-parker-wilson |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 August 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Identity Revealed: Bay Area neo-Nazi hid in plain sight |url=https://eltecolote.org/content/en/identity-revealed-bay-area-neo-nazi-hid-in-plain-sight/ |access-date=29 August 2024 |work=El Tecolote |date=9 February 2017}}
Notes
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External links
- [http://www.capsweb.org Californians for Population Stabilization website]
- David M. Reimers (1998) [https://books.google.com/books?id=7PI3vbwUDGMC&dq=%22Californians+for+Population+Stabilization%22&pg=PA50 Unwelcome strangers: American identity and the turn against immigration], Columbia University Press, portion of book regarding CAPS
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Category:Anti-immigration politics in the United States
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Category:Environmental organizations based in California
Category:Sustainability organizations
Category:Organizations promoting population moderation
Category:Human overpopulation think tanks
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Category:Population concern advocacy groups
Category:Population concern organizations