Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
VC: Mitigating Structural Violence
Structural Violence is predicated on differences that arbitrarily reduce the scope of justice. Winter and Leighton 99
Christie, D. J., R. V. Wagner, and D. DuNann Winter. "Peace, conflict and violence: Peace psychology for the 21st century." A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention 48 (2003).
Finally, to recognize... building lasting peace.
Structural violence mandates concrete discussion. Curry 14
Dr. Tommy J. Curry The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century. 2014
Despite the pronouncement... contemporary moral parameters.
Structural violence is the largest proximate cause of war- creates priming that psychologically structures escalation. Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn) (Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and... among otherwise good.
Solutions to oppression can’t merely be the re-imposition of the logic in a different form. Friere 68
Friere 68 (“The Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, Paulo Friere, Brazilian Philosipher, 1968)
It is only when... methods of dehumanization.
Plan: The United States Federal Government should prohibit the production of nuclear power.
Black bodies are fungible-- we place nuclear waste facilities on their land while not realizing the terrible long-term effects. Dixon 12
Dixon, "Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?" http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
Environmental racism occurs... know is there.
It's try or die for the Aff-- nobody will listen. Dixon 12
Dixon, "Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?" http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
We’ve had meetings... sold to Florida.
Nuclear power companies dump waste on Native land. NIRS 1
NIRS, "Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste" http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm
Nevadans and Utahans... past five years.
Without ending nuclear power, we destroy Natives and their land. NIRS 1
NIRS, "Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste" http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm
Having lost its... and environmental racism.
