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+=AFF Structural Violence= |
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+My standard is structural violence |
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+====We must listen to those oppressed outside our scope of justice==== |
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+**Winter and Leighton 01, D. D., and Leighton, D. C. (2001). Structural violence. In D. J. Christie, R. V. Wagner, and D. D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. New York: Prentice-Hall. CM** |
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+Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about |
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+thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. |
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+====Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimizes oppression.==== |
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+**Curry 14, Dr. Tommy J. Curry 14, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014, BE** |
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+Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real |
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+AND |
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+used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters. |
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+====Morality is based on response to problems in the world, which justifies focus on resolving material conditions of violence.==== |
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+**Pappas 16, Gregory Fernando Pappas 16 ~~Texas AandM University~~ "The Pragmatists’ Approach to Injustice", The Pluralist Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2016, BE** |
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+In Experience and Nature, Dewey names the empirical way of doing philosophy the " |
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+AND |
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+that is, provide a diagnosis and a solution specific to each patient. |
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+==Plan Text: Countries ban the production of uranium powered nuclear reactors through nuclear decommissioning == |
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+=Contention 1 Black Communities= |
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+====Our current way of thinking views blacks as expendable and need for less protection than affluent whites==== |
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+**Dean 1, Deborah. "Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community." Georgia Southern University, Spring 2011. http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533andcontext=etd.** |
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+If a community happens to be poor, politically powerless, or inhabited largely by |
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+AND |
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+who lack health insurance and access to affordable, good quality medical facilities. |
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+====The injustice happens throughout society and causes series of health problems==== |
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+**Dean 2, Deborah. "Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community." Georgia Southern University, Spring 2011. http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533andcontext=etd.** |
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+Before the contamination, Hyde Park stood to gain so much just as it had |
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+that cause cancers, respiratory problems, skin disorders, and poorly educated children |
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+====Black communities have yet to achieve genuine equality and human justice; The inequitable environmental distributions have collapsed communities and causes a perpetual cycle. ==== |
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+**Dean 3, Deborah. "Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community." Georgia Southern University, Spring 2011. http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533andcontext=etd.** |
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+Unfortunately, for us the reality is that we all live in a society that |
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+AND |
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+watching the evidence change‖ (Wallis, 2004, p.203). |
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+=Contention 2 Indigenous Communities= |
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+====The legacy of institutional racism has neglected the basic needs of the natives ==== |
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+**Bullard 01, Robert. "Confronting Environmental Racism in the 21st Century." United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, September 2001. http://courses.arch.vt.edu/courses/wdunaway/gia5524/bullard.pdf.** |
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+Reservations have been targeted as sites for 16 proposed nuclear waste dumps. Over 100 |
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+AND |
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+inadequate education and health care, and a host of other social problems. |
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+====And governments are turning a blind eye==== |
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+**Bullard 01, Robert. "Confronting Environmental Racism in the 21st Century." United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, September 2001. http://courses.arch.vt.edu/courses/wdunaway/gia5524/bullard.pdf.** |
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+The U.S. is the dominant economic and military force in the world |
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+AND |
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+). Some communities are routinely poisoned while the government looks the other way. |
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+==This undermines structural violence in 2 ways== |
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+====First, Without ending nuclear power, we distance ourselves from natives and their relationship and history with the land. ==== |
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+NIRS 01 Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm |
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+Having lost its bid to "temporarily" store its deadly wastes on Western Shoshone |
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+that struggle for Native American environmental justice against corporate greed and environmental racism. |
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+====Second is Restriction of soverignty rights==== |
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+Lopez 04, Bayley. "Bayley Lopez,." RADIOACTIVE RESERVATION: THE UPHILL BATTLE TO KEEP NUCLEAR WASTE OFF NATIVE AMERICAN LAND. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 1 Sept. 2004. Web. 09 Aug. 2016. https://www.wagingpeace.org/author/bayley-lopez/. |
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+The issue of nuclear waste has played a key role in obscuring the definition of |
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+the United States government can choose when they wish to give them sovereignty. |
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+====Nuclear power production exacerbates material violence against indigenous peoples, reproducing the same violence they suffered when they were ripped off their lands.==== |
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+Endres 1 |
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+~~Danielle Endres (—-), "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision" Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp.39-60~~ |
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+Before attending to the rhetorical nature of nuclear colonialism, it is important to emphasize |
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+contaminated soil and water, which could harm animal and plant life.15 |
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+====And, in the status quo, discussion of nuclear power purposely denies the lived experiences of indigenous peoples in the face of nuclear energy violence.==== |
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+Endres 2 |
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+~~Danielle Endres (—-), "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision" Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp.39-60~~ |
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+Colonialism in all its forms is dependent on the discursive apparatus that sustains it. |
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+for the benefit of the colonizer at the expense of their colonial targets. |
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+====Reorientation of nuclear power must be the first step to demolishing the power structures.==== |
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+Endres 3 |
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+~~Danielle Endres (—-), "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision" Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp.39-60~~ |
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+Because American Indian arguments raise issues of fairness, treaty rights, legal protection for |
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+negation, or silence, we are told, is never complete.’’82 |
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+====A nuclear phase-out decrease uranium mining- empirics are on our side==== |
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+**Schmid 15 (Schmid, Sonja. "Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry," 400. MIT Press, 2015. https://books.google.com/books?id=dMzVBgAAQBAJanddq=phase-out+of+nuclear+power+decreases+uranium+miningandsource=gbs'navlinks's.)** |
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+Political transitions like the collapse of the Soviet Union tend to remind us how fragile |
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+uranium mining organizations and about half of the previously Soviet nuclear power plants. |
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+====~~Smith~~ Confronting oppression is the obligation of everyone in round. This is our primary concern as only liberation politics can make LD truly inclusive and liberatory-==== |
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+Smith |
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+Elijah Smith ~~Debate coach~~ "A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate", Victory Briefs, 9/4/13, http://vbriefly.com/2013/09/06/20139a-conversation-in-ruins-race-and-black-participation-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Accessed: 12/8/15, Pp 1-3 |
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+It will be uncomfortable, it will be hard, and i~~I~~ |
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+, or to force debate to deal with the truth of their perspectives. |
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+====A focus on the production and prevention of environmental racism is necessary==== |
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+**Newell 05, Peter. "Race, Class and the Global Politics ofEnvironmental Inequality." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1304/race252C2520clas252C2520env2520inequality.pdf** |
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+Often what start as campaigns about particular siting decisions becomestruggles over decision-making processes |
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+, however, requires a focus on the production and prevention of injustices." |
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+====We must focus on solutions that permenantly or signifcantly reduce waste when examining the injustice==== |
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+**Guana 95, Eileen. "Federal Environmental Citizen Provisions: Obstacles and Incentives on the Road to Environmental Justice." Ecology Law Quarterly, January 1995. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1504andcontext=elq.** |
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+Professor Jarman points out that this unfortunate provision has a silver lining. Sometimes, |
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+§ 9621(b)(1) (1988) (emphasis added). |
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+====And Decommissioning solves for nuclear waste==== |
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+**Becker 16, Tara. "Process to Close Nuclear Plant Will Take Years, Officials Say." Quad-City Times, June 2, 2016. http://qctimes.com/news/local/process-to-close-nuclear-plant-will-take-years-officials-say/article'efc5d953-c206-5315-a229-bb5b9b211936.html.** |
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+Once the fuel is removed from the reactor, the company can no longer operate |
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+level that permits release of the property and termination of the NRC license. |