Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: North Hollywood NW | Judge: Mathur, Shivani

Nuclear power is a corporate sham – we are fed a narrative that presents it as the inevitable future because of its cost-efficiency – when in fact nuclear power is neither cost-effective nor safe – this fixation on profit is the root cause of environmental destruction

Martin et. Al 84
(The main authors are Jill Bowling, Brian Martin, Val Plumwood and Ian Watson, with important contributions from Ray Kent, Basil Schur and Rosemary Walters. Strategy against nuclear power http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/86sa.html)
Why was the nuclear option taken? Nuclear power is not an automatic or inevitable
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oppose nuclear power effectively requires addressing the structures in which it is embedded.

This rationalist paradigm strips individuals of genuine political choice – a neoliberal political paradigm is presented as the only option because it is supposedly the most cost-efficient one. This depoliticization of economic policy reduces politics to a choice between two managers of the same policy preferences that are immune to questioning.
Hay 06 Colin, Professor of Political Analysis at University of Sheffield "The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism" Tandf Online 21 Aug 2006 AT
The 'disaffection' of previously engaged citizens from the democratic process is a key theme
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neoliberalism (at least in Britain) on stylized rationalist assumptions. Accordingly, 

Impact

Neolib itself is not intrinsically bad – but an ideological commitment to it that is seen as beyond question certainly is – clinging to this dying system results in civilization collapse and structural violence
Bednarz 13 (Dan, Sociologist, has worked in academic public health, Associate Director of the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh, has lectured at the university level in business strategy, organizational studies, sociology, and policy analysis) "Power, Identity and Social Change as We Enter Degrowth" Health After Oil, August 12 AT
Almost all contemporary governments are ignoring or misinterpreting economic contraction, resource scarcities and biophysical
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vested interests, and the implicit threats of surveillance and state sanctioned violence.

Solvency

Thus, I advocate a repoliticization of economic policy that begins with a country-wide opposition and boycott to the production of nuclear power.
Personal political action is key – this act of defiance affirms the power of individual choice in the face of market forces that attempt to quell personal agency
Robert V. Kozinets and Jay Handelman (1998) ,"Ensouling Consumption: a Netnographic Exploration of the Meaning of Boycotting Behavior", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 25, eds. Joseph W. Alba and J. Wesley Hutchinson, Provo, UT : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 475-480.
Boycotting as Morally Transforming Behavior A new dimension extending beyond boycotting's functional image as a
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on alt.punk.straight-edge, 02/09/1997

And the aff is prior question, revealing our choice in the neoliberal paradigm and deconstructing its rationalist assumptions are a prerequisite to generating any solution
Hay 06 Colin, Professor of Political Analysis at University of Sheffield "The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism" Tandf Online 21 Aug 2006 AT
however depoliticized and normalized neoliberalism has become, it remains a political and economic choice
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of the re-animation of a worryingly disaffected and disengaged democratic culture.

Framing

The Role of the judge is to vote  for the debater that best deconstructs neoliberal norms.
The role of the ballot is to endorse the approach that best challenges the normalization of neolib. The debate should focus not on the consequences of the aff advocacy, but on what ideology the advocacy affirms. You should vote aff not because a boycott of nuclear power causes a decrease in neoliberalism, but because a boycott represents an ideological challenge to neolib.
This is the only viable strategy to resist coorporatization – using the debate space to question the ideological foundations of neolib is necessary to challenge it
Giroux, PhD, 2005
(Henry A., College Literature, Volume 32, No. 1, p. 10)
Such efforts must be understood as part of a broader attempt not only to collectively
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as the model for organizing all facets of everyday life (Henwood 2003).

And this is preferable to policy education—Criticism comes first – acting as advisors to policy-makers prevents a true intellectual space
Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas
(Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets
When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced
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a place fit for human habitation" (1964 2006: 233). 

Refusal to question neoliberalism spills over to the real world—our refusal to question market norms imbues norms of fairness  and education with neoconservative ideology
Giroux 4 (Henry, professor of Cultural Studies at McMaster University, "Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism: making the political more pedagogical" Policy Futures in Education, Volume 2, Number 3 and 4, 2004)
At this point in American history, neo-liberal capitalism is not simply too
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last 30 years, particularly under the ruthless administration of George W. Bush

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake KK | Judge: Anne Hwang
Universities have become corporatized functioning as collective assemblies of research havens that are changed depending on their funders, hijacked by different industries and complexes, these bonds function to minimize and destroy any active efforts to effectuate change within the real world
Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
On the other hand, there are dangerous complicities implicit in our attempts to carve out sites of resistance from within the neoliberal university. ... and simultaneous shrinkage through budget cuts and furloughs of the rest also serves to delineate and exacerbate disciplinary inequalities between the “haves” and “have nots” of the new knowledge economy.

The Prison Industrial Complex has entered into the university in four unique ways, financing, workforce training, data mining, and knowledge production. Making academia a key component in the sustained proliferation of penal expansion
Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
Whereas public schools have been absorbed into the prison-industrial complex as a producer of raw material—“juvenile delinquents,” “criminals,” or army recruits... has provided scientific rationale for harsh sentencing practices—such as the “three-strikes” law—that have swelled prison populations and targeted low-income communities of color.44

These prisons becomes sites of social death for marginalized and repressed bodies, engendering violence and political suppression
Sharman 14 (Samantha, phd in gender studies, destabilizing the prison industrial complex: necropolitics, biopolitics and the reproduction of sovereignty, university of Arizona, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/321955/1/azu_etd_mr_2014_0202_sip1_m.pdf,)
Prisons are not death factories—they are not Nazi camps or even necessarily way stations before execution (though in some cases they may be). ... and see the PIC as a cultural project which produces socially dead subjects—bodies of the living dead.

Protests are crucial and have been done prior to decouple academia from the corporation
Giroux 2 (Henry A. Giroux, “Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education”, 2002, published by President and Fellows of Harvard College, https://geoggingclub.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/2002-giroux-neoliberalism-corporate-culture-and-the-promise-of-higher-education.pdf )
Educators and students need to join with community people and social movements around a common platform that resists the corporatizing of schools, ... in order to judge their "significance ... for the shape and function of the university curricula today. "120

) In response to the protests of the 90’s there has been a proliferation speech zones and tactics as an active countermeasure to protected speech and destroy the ability to protest within universities and realize change  
Elmer 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41)
SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in late November 1999, ... incorporated decidedly preemptive logics that explicitly reinforce our belief that the preemptive doctrine is as much about controlling behaviours and seeking broader political compliance as it is a technique for reducing actual risks and dangers.

Thus I advocate that public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech

Through this we are able to actively embrace an abolitionary lens to the Prison Industrial Complex, unhampered by counter tactics, we can protest and challenge the corporatized nature of the university and effectively abolish the PIC
Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
In my earlier work on the academic-prison-industrial complex, ... kitchen and garden staff, and tenure-track and adjunct faculty? These are the possibilities opened up by academic-MPIC abolition.

Challenging institutional racism is a prior ethical question— it makes violence structurally inevitable and foundationally negates morality making their utilitarianism arguments incoherent.
Albert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission, probably never achieved. ... If it is accepted, we can hope someday to live in peace. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.