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The group’s primary function is lobbying. Founded in 2018, they advocate for the curtailment of the H-1B visa program on the basis that employers systematically abuse the program, thereby harming both American and international tech workers.

Other labor-focused organizations, such as the International Labor Recruitment Working Group, have also highlighted the systemic abuses committed by employers who utilize this specific visa program. However, a closer look at the staff and funds of U.S. Tech Workers illuminates its ties to the anti-immigrant movement.


SPLC's Hatewatch Staff collected the information presented in the graph from the following organizations' websites: The Foundation Center, Progressives for Immigration Reform, U.S. Tech Workers, Doctors without Jobs, Center for Progressive Urban Politics, VDARE and the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
One of U.S. Tech Workers’ writers is Joe Guzzardi, a man with ties to the anti-immigrant network founded by white nationalist and eugenicist John Tanton. Guzzardi serves on the national board of advisors for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant hate group Tanton started in 1979. In addition to serving as a FAIR national board advisor, Guzzardi is a writer and analyst at PFIR. PFIR began in 2009, with founders contending that blocking immigrants from coming into the U.S. protects the environment because immigrants are to blame for urban sprawl, traffic congestion and other issues.

Prior to his current roles, Guzzardi directed media relations at Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a state-level anti-immigrant hate group founded by white nationalist Garrett Hardin, for nearly a decade. From 2001 to 2010, Guzzardi authored approximately 738 blogs for VDARE, a white nationalist hate website founded by Peter Brimelow.

Bill Gates: Technological innovation would help solve hunger
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In assigning technology a pre-eminent role in addressing the world’s food crisis, Gates puts himself at odds with critics who say his ideas conflict with worldwide efforts to protect the environment.
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Some researchers question the wisdom of pursuing the fundamental premise that Gates has embraced: Increasing agricultural production through the use of modified seeds along with fertilizers and pesticides. They point to the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, including the use of fossil fuel-based fertilizers, the degradation of soil quality and the diminishing of biodiversity.

First Native American woman to travel to space
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Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, will be mission commander - responsible for all phases of flight.
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"I think it's important that we communicate this to our community, so that other Native kids... realise that some of those barriers that used to be there are really starting to get broken down," she added.

Ms Mann says that in her allocated 3.3 lb (1.4kg) for personal items she will take "a dreamcatcher that my mother gave me when I was very young".

She has been deployed twice on aircraft carriers supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan

In 2002, John Herrington, an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, was the first Native American man to fly into space. He carried the Nation's flag and a traditional flute on his 13-day voyage.

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I hadn’t really considered the effect of consumerism until my late 30s, which is roughly when I joined the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Being in a medieval reenacting setting meant that I was given the opportunity to value the food I ate, tools I worked with, things I wore, because I was making my own tools/textiles/clothing/jewellery, etc.

It only took me a couple of months to start seeing everything around me through the lens of a craftsperson. I was appreciating the effort behind handcrafts more, and started shunning “disposable” items because there was an enormous portion of my life that those things wouldn’t fit into. And once you’ve made your own stuff, or bought it off another craftsperson, there’s a deeper connection to that item than I’d ever experienced before. I will prefer to use the things I have made sustainably to any plastic item.

Did anyone else have some type of event that triggered their shift to anti-consumption? If so, what was it?

I definitely got that feeling from learning how to sew, with a focus on sewing historically inspired clothing. Really opened my eyes to how most modern clothing is trash from its very conception. Terrible fabrics, terrible tailoring, and terrible workmanship. I now lean towards thrifted clothes as at least they survived a few washes and there is more variety. Plus I tend towards tighter woven natural fabrics so any repairs I do will last.

To me, anticonsumption is not just about deciding not to buy things. It's about learning to relate to the physical world differently. You don't have to be a subsistence farmer, but learning skills like how to repair your own clothes or fix your appliances can go a long way.

I've had a very similar experience. I haven't started re-enacting, yet. However, getting into the re-enacting scene; learning to make, grow, and reuse items myself; and learning how expensive and inaccessible even a fraction of our level of consumption and waste would have been to people just a hundred years ago is shocking. I have a much deeper respect for the objects I use and what I have access to, but I also respect the ingenuity of the people who came before us. I can't imagine going back to living life the way I used to. It just feels so wasteful.