Cypress Woods Clarke Aff
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| Glenbrooks | 6 | Collegiate DM | Paul Gravley |
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| Glenbrooks round 2 | 2 | Brentwood KR | Dan Allessandro |
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| Grapevine | 2 | Opponent: Omar Lopera | Judge: James Braden Aff K |
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AffTournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Omar Lopera | Judge: James Braden Inherency Floating nuclear power is being pushed by world powers Stover 16 On April 22… is “pretty strong” Plan: Prohibit the production of floating nuclear power They would be floating chernobyls Grossman 10 They would be …Raise Spectre of Advantage 1 The showdown over…on the table.” US China war close and nuclear Kulacki May Extinction Helfand, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War co-president, ‘13 Nov 4, Arms Control Association, The Humanitarian Consequences Of Nuclear War, https://www.armscontrol.org/print/6021, accessed 7/3/16, ge Any effort to stop china is good: the military conflict pulls in the US otherwise Khong 14 Yuen Foong Khong 14, Professor of International Relations and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, "Primacy or World Order?," International Security 39(3), Winter 2013-14, www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00147 (recut LC) Advantage 2 floating power is key to Russia’s arctic expansion Galpin Two Impacts First is warming Floating plants damage arctic with high accident probability NTI 2010 Although there are…be taken seriously. Arctic drilling destroys arctic Kroh Extinction Existential impacts come first. Second is Russia Russia wants arctic control Resource push causes Russia conflict Backus Because no entity…manage the situation. Nuke War Staples | 9/10/16 |
AffTournament: Glenbrooks round 2 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Brentwood KR | Judge: Dan Allessandro Winter and Leighton 99: The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. Harms Police have decided they truly are above the law: holding them accountable with a smartphone is met with violence and retaliation: they don’t want us to see a thing Hotchkin On Saturday afternoon… fact fully operational. Back in April…out these cases. The police state is very real: we can’t hold cops accountable for anything Madar How to police…joke of self-regulation QI is given all the time to recording conflicts Simonson 1 I've written a…law enforcement officials. Any specification in the plan text I reserve the right to clarify Empirics prove: filming drastically reduces police abuse Ly or police officers…by an officer. Proven to cause value orientation and state change: the hegemon is forced to react to Sousveillance and the people come out ahead Zuckerman When MIT grad…a deadly way. Underview
Limit (ends) vs…core aff ground. | 11/19/16 |
AffTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Applevalley TE | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo Winter and Leighton 99: Politic of Hope are good: it’s the only way to conceptualize repairing structural inequalities Solutions to critical issues must be discussed through pragmatic approaches within hegemonic power structures. Kapoor ‘08 : There are perhaps…deflect their claims. The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. Harms Police have decided they truly are above the law: holding them accountable with a smartphone is met with violence and retaliation: they don’t want us to see a thing Hotchkin On Saturday afternoon… fact fully operational. Back in April…out these cases. The police state is very real: we can’t hold cops accountable for anything Madar How to police…joke of self-regulation QI is given all the time to recording conflicts Simonson 1 I've written a…law enforcement officials. Any specification in the plan text I reserve the right to clarify Empirics prove: filming drastically reduces police abuse Ly Organised acts by… state and capital This is key to democratic deliberation and change: it starts the conversations or police officers…by an officer. Proven to cause value orientation and state change: the hegemon is forced to react to Sousveillance and the people come out ahead Zuckerman When MIT grad…a deadly way. Underview There is a solvency advocate | 11/19/16 |
AffTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Collegiate DM | Judge: Paul Gravley EVIDENCE in this aff has been doctored in a few ways
The Role of the Ballot is to Mitigate oppression through material conditions Winter and Leighton 99: Material conditions come first Matsuda The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. Politic of Hope are good: it’s the only way to conceptualize repairing structural inequalities Inherency QI creates a precedent that severely narrows redress and creates a terrible precedent for liability Bishop Qualified immunities overuse in IPV is based on lack of action: limiting it requires setting the precedent of when it’s not probable: and that requires litigation Harper Should a battered…their constitutional rights Harms Despite the… violence is present.125 The culture of violence exists in policing: the effort for IPV cases is marked by structural exclusion, making police responses passive and minimal Litsky Thus the Plan: The United States Government will enact the Illinois Domestic Violence Act nationally to limit Qualified Immunity. Note: official stature doesn’t denote an affirmation of the rhetoric: it’s still IPV in all respects for us who run the aff, we can’t change its name Solves: this has created clearly established law that opens the courts Litchman 3 The clear language…jury.228 While the It's incredibly inclusive and forward thinking: the IDVA applies to all Family Ministries What is the…neglect and exploitation Litigation in the case of breaking the clearly established law independently creates reform: IPV response proves Litsky 8 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 149 (1990-1991) The police response…effective police response Underview Interpretation: debaters may defend only 2 types of affs: affs that fiat a clear establishment of rights and whole res: and they may only defend the former if:
Limit (ends) vs core aff ground. | 11/20/16 |
AffTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dulles AD | Judge: Aimun Khan A- ANALYTICS This kind of consensus requires a contractarian system of self restraint. Only this system can reconcile subjective ethics. Gauthier Moral principles are…in their affairs. Gauthier’s objective…can be based. ANALYTICS analytics
The protection of its collaborative construction.28 Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by…state and capital 2. Lack of clear demarcations of what constitutes hate speech creates a spillover: destroys discourse And that’s proven: The right is pushing to stop progressive views on campus ranging from advocating gay rights to criticizing trump Rampell Many will say…to speak his. The problem for…regime they are. | 1/6/17 |
BDSTournament: HWRR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake IP | Judge: RandallSmith Winter and Leighton 99: The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. \ Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by…state and capital Inherency 2017 has the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act: this is a direct speech restriction on anti-Israel sentiments. Stern The plan: the US Congressional House of Representatives ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech by refusing to pass the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Stern is our solvency advocate Solvency BDS works: the government is forced to react and defend itself Barghoutijan JERUSALEM — IF Secretary…divestment and sanctions. BDS is working: it creates social pressure Eid Because I am…other fig leaves. Global critiques of the US are required to create change at home: State violence is justified and connected to out of state violence: the aff defends the avenue to create change Butts 15 Underview Counterinterpretation any is defined as part of not all We meet: Standard is ground: Standard is Real World Education | 1/15/17 |
CONTACTTournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: | Judge: you can contact me 2 ways lucasclarke8@gmail.com | 8/19/16 |
Contracts AffTournament: Harvard Westlake R3 | Round: 3 | Opponent: idk | Judge: idk Analytics . This kind of consensus requires a contractarian system of self restraint. Only this system can reconcile subjective ethics. Gauthier Moral principles are…in their affairs. Gauthier’s objective is…can be based. And my standard comes first: analytics
The protection of…its collaborative construction.28 Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by…state and capital 2. Lack of clear demarcations of what constitutes hate speech creates a spillover: destroys discourse And that’s proven: The right is pushing to stop progressive views on campus ranging from advocating gay rights to criticizing trump Rampell Many will say…to speak his. The problem for…regime they are. | 1/15/17 |
Ilaw KTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Strake WH | Judge: Parker Kelly B. is the Impact and Alt I do notbehind international law C. is the role of the judge, there is a pre fiat obligation to reject colonialism, Dei explains, G. J. Dei Anti-Colonialism and Education 2006 The anti-colonial…and learning processes. | 1/7/17 |
InterpsTournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KL | Judge: Kukreja | 1/27/17 |
K Underview for IMPX ACTournament: Ghill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ishan Bhatt | Judge: WrightArthur The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. Climate change disproportionately affects people of color and women worldwide and causes extinction—they cede the opportunity to make informed policies that can reverse historical irresponsibility. It is now…the global North. UTILITARIANISM DENOUNCES ATROCITIES AND DOESN’T CONDONE FUTURE ATROCITIES Smart | 9/15/16 |
Put on your tinfoil hatsTournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ashish | Judge: Hertzig Winter and Leighton 99: I’ll specify how to weigh under the rotb: anything not here just ask in cx: no way you can say it won’t solve
Material conditions come first Matsuda The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. \ Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by individuals are here termed ‘subversive’. Hacking is a good example of information subversion (Thomas 2000; Taylor 2000) to which we might add those such as crackers, phreakers and cyberpunks, all of whom use technology to carve out spaces of freedom and autonomy that the same technology can foreclose in the hands of corporations (Starr 2000: 73-80). The downloading of music from the Internet using MP3 technology, for instance, is popularly subversive, not only because it is widespread but because it seems to engender no more popular disapproval than the use of blank cassettes for taping music off the radio. Another example of subversion can be found in the kind of counter-surveillance that some individuals pursue against the surveillance apparatus; this can mean filming the police who film demonstrations or it can mean using data protection legislation to expose corporate misdemeanours. At its best, then, subversion can constitute a counter-cultural movement which, like their predecessors in the 1960s, is not anti-capitalist per se but does represent a form of resistance against powerful corporations and state agencies. To be subversive, then, hacking et al must not be done for its own sake (still less for personal gain) but in order to undermine the information systems of economic and political power. Subversion can occur both outside the law but also within it, by exploiting ambivalences within the law and/or by encouraging the legal apparatus to catch up with developments in ICT, a time lag that governments and corporations are often able to exploit for undesirable ends. Organised acts by groups can be termed ‘rebellious’. For instance, many businesses have found there websites subjected to ‘denial of service’ attacks, effectively putting much of that company out of operation for significant periods of time – of course such attacks can also be the result of individual grudges against the company in question, or even of random and capricious malevolence. However, the most famous example of rebellion remains the Zapatista movement’s successful and continued mobilisation of world opinion against the attempt by the Mexican government to deprive them of their land rights (Castells 1997: 72-83). In addition, we might also consider the kind of opposition, mentioned in the above discussion of RIPA, to legislation that threatens civil liberties. The USA has been an important source of opposition to other attempts at over-regulating cyberspace (Jordan, 1999). Acts of resistance therefore consist of material and/or discursive actions that disclose social alternatives by attempting to open what economic and political powers attempt to close: the heterotopic spaces of autonomy which are the source of alternative visions of individuality and society (Foucault, 1986) but which risk being silenced by informatic capitalism in its attempt to reduce human diversity to digital bytes and data streams. Resistance is always a strategy that positions itself against the hegemony of the dominant nodes of money and power that are embedded in sites of work and consumption (see above). An act of resistance therefore requires sites of resistance: the sites are the sine qua non of the acts which simultaneously confirm and destabilise the condition of their existence. A site of resistance is both materially and culturally transformed by the acts of resistance to which it gives rise. A site makes an act possible and an act is the means by which we become aware of a site’s transformative potential. Therefore, a site must facilitate an ideological orientation, i.e. a critique of existing power and its alternatives. These observations are hardly new, deriving from the critical theoretical tradition, e.g. Marx’s observation that capitalism makes possible the conditions of its own demise. Without wanting to replicate that kind of messianic faith we can point, on the basis of the above analysis, to two sites that characterise informatic capitalism: the office and the body. The office rather than the factory floor is now the archetypal workplace due to the shift towards a post-industrial economy. Yet these offices are not fixed, they are mobile and dispersed informational systems. An office is no longer about shelves and paper files but about being connected to a server, whether at work or from home; and it is the malleability of the office which makes it both possible and desirable for employers to survey their employees. The body is no longer a simple appendage to the machine but what some like to call a terminal plugged into the informatic circuitry. The cyborg is neither just a metaphor (Haraway 1991) nor a physical assemblage of machine and organism, but a risk processor that increasingly simulates an informational system by relating to its environment as a series of dichotomous zeroes and ones: threatening/non-threatening, insider/outsider, same/other (Fitzpatrick 1999). Yet the body and the office are not merely sites of domination but sites, pace Foucault, of creative becoming. Workplace surveillance reminds us that capital not only wants our labour it wants our souls, our ever-demonstrable commitment to the corporate ethic; bodily surveillance at the level of consumption, or in what formally remain public spaces, reminds us that there are consequences (of social exclusion and stigma) for those who do not conform to the persona of the law-abiding shopper. These reminders are also ways of retrieving the desire for social alternatives: even as we are reduced to information we can desire to become something more. If information systems reduce us to database files and categories then information is also a means of mobilisation. Agency has not vanished into a destructured residue of the modern self, and to be human is to be more than a feedback loop of information, but if information undoubtedly constitutes the formation of identity as never before (Lyon 1998: 100) then the information that constitutes the self can be used by the self, through interaction with others in potential sites of resistance, to carve out the spaces of hope that allow us to imagine social alternatives. The self in any capitalist society is a struggle for self-determination in conflict with the nautonomous forces of state and capital Koch legislation is strong now: without protections their bill will pass Kotch Legislators in some states including Illinois and Tennessee have introduced bills in 2017 that explicitly mention sanctions on student protesters. Illinois’ bill, proposed by two Republicans, lifts this language, and additional passages, nearly verbatim from the Goldwater model. Also sponsored by Republicans, the bill in Tennessee—nicknamed the “Milo Bill” after an event at the University of California at Berkeley featuring the racist “alt-right” icon Milo Yiannopolous was canceled due to protests—directs universities to enact free speech policies that include “sanctions for anyone under the jurisdiction of the institution who interferes with the free expression of others,” and it gives faculty “the right to regulate class speech.” In North Carolina, Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest intends to work with legislators on a Restore Campus Free Speech Act, which would create “a discipline policy that would punish students who shout down visiting speakers or deprive others of their right to free expression, a tactic commonly known as the ‘hecklers’ veto.'" Last year, Forest floated a measure calling on the University of North Carolina’s board of governors to create a system-wide policy that would impose harsh penalties, including expulsion, on students, staff and faculty members who disrupt classes, public meetings or events. The Koch-funded Generation Opportunity lauded the effort at the time. Forest has said that yelling at a guest speaker “has never been free speech,” and he’s called campus protest methods “terrorist tactics.” No one introduced a free speech bill that year. Other proposed laws, like North Dakota’s, which was introduced by six Republicans, omit sanctions provisions but state that a university may restrict student speech if it blocks entrances to buildings, obstructs traffic or interferes with events. Much of the North Dakota bill comes directly from the text of the Goldwater model legislation. A large group of most Republican legislators in Virginia has a new bill in play that includes much of the Goldwater language but stays away from restrictions on students. Additional campus free speech bills have been introduced this year in Colorado (sponsored by two Republicans and one Democrat) and Utah (sponsored by 14 Republican state representatives). Florida could be next. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has a "free speech" provision in his proposed budget. It’s nationwide in a short timeframe: soon it’ll appear everywhere Wilson in March First Wisconsin Richmond State Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton Township, has introduced two bills he says would require state universities to adopt policies that protect free speech and intellectual debate on campus and ensure that invited speakers would be allowed to speak. The text of the legislation, embodied in Senate Bills 349 and 350, has not yet been posted on the website of the Michigan Legislature. Colbeck calls his proposal the “campus free Maloney And check any plan flaw claims check in cx; its aesthetic, we can focus on substance which comes first its topic ed First is protest Despite a provision that appears to protect protests and free speech, this bill actually bans protests. It is not a defense of free speech: Any person lawfully present on campus may protest or demonstrate there. Such statement shall make clear that protests and demonstrations that infringe upon the rights of others to engage in or listen to expressive activity shall not be permitted and shall be subject to sanction. (Section 1.4) This would prohibit a plethora of protected expressive acts, for example, a chant, or a song that could be construed as infringing. The authors claim “this means no more shouting down of visiting speakers, and no more obstruction of legitimate meetings and events.” The model bill stipulates that student demonstrators “shall be subject to sanction.” Not only would disruptive protestors be removed as they are now, they would face legal and academic sanctions: the bill would authorize a range of disciplinary sanctions for those who interfere with the speech of others, with particularly strong penalties for anyone who commits a second offense. On campuses that are already overly militarized, this bill calls for harsher policing of students protesters. The Flaws of the Campus Free Speech Act John K. Wilson / February 6, 2017 BY JOHN K. WILSON https://academeblog.org/2017/02/06/the-flaws-of-the-campus-free-speech-act/ (CWLC) Mandatory minimums are generally a very bad idea contrary to the interests of justice, and this is no exception to the rule. Why should students receive a minimum suspension of one year even if the penalty they deserve would be far less severe? After all, even students who commit sexual violence are not subject to minimum suspensions dictated by legislators (but that would be the next obvious step if this proposal is enacted). Suppose that a student is found responsible for a very minor violation of the rights of others. The fear of being accused of another offense might lead students to silence themselves. There’s also the problem that a university could choose to charge a student with two different offenses at a campus protest, and then the student would technically need to be suspended for a year if guilty of both of them. Considering that Kurtz himself has declared that “interrupting” a speaker is “tyranny, pure and simple, and cannot be tolerated by any community that cherishes and protects free expression,” it is quite possible to read this legislation to require suspension for a year of any student who heckles a speaker twice. Recently, there’s been a swarm of rousing protests and peaceful demonstrations across the country. Even in Claremont, changes to the demonstration policy on campus that limits student ability to protest has sparked something of an uproar. This comes soon after the mass campus mobilization and consequent student march in response to racial incidents and other expressions of prejudice at the 5Cs. The Claremont Colleges administrative attempt to suppress student protest was met with widespread contention and the formation of a passionate committee dedicated to reforming the controversial demonstration policy. As I returned home for winter break, the subject of these protests came up in conversation with a friend of mine who goes to school in Chicago. She described to me how despite the interest that the #BlackLivesMatter protests had initially piqued in her, she had gradually grown more blase towards them. The continuous demonstrations outside her window eventually became almost routine and somewhat of an annoyance rather than revolutionary. This, for a lack of a better word, trivialization, of such an important issue was incredibly interesting and made me contemplate the true effectiveness of protest as a tool for affecting change in this generation. Protest, n. an organized public demonstration expressing strong objection to a policy or course of action adopted by those in authority. This expression of dissent definitely has a long list of pros. The organization that comes with a protest is often immense, but the result is a space wherein like-minded warriors of social justice can come together to find an arena to express their oft-controversial perspectives of important issues. A protest binds people together in solidarity against an authority or problematic idea. Demonstrations allow for the development of independent voices as well as amalgamation into a diverse and united force to bring about changes by raising public awareness about a particular concern. From people who have little to no knowledge of the issue to those who oppose the righteous side without the full story, the importance of demonstration as a means of increasing the information and knowledge available in the public realm is tremendous. Additionally, protest as a tool for bringing about reforms in policy is vital, providing an arena for the governed to bring the issues that concern and plague them to the fore of attention of those who govern them. This essential component of social fabric aids in introducing necessary administrative changes that may otherwise have gone unnoticed and unchanged. For it was the culmination of civil unrest in protest that overthrew the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. For it was demonstrations of mass resistance in the South that propelled the civil rights movement. For even the President of the United States describes protest as ‘necessary for triggering the nation’s conscience’. However, it is also important to play Devil’s advocate and consider where peaceful protest falls short. Often enough, the scope for raising awareness is fairly limited, what with the protesters who are already familiar with the substantive content, and many of those who do not know falling far from the spectrum of onlookers of protests. Even so, this visible and powerful force fighting for a particular issue can often aggravate naysayers who sense growing opposition to their cause. This could cause them to grow gradually more militant and respond in an untoward manner. Truly, the possibility of peaceful demonstration escalating into violent conflict is probably the most concerning drawback of protest. The ‘mob mentality’ of protesters in large groups makes protests extremely volatile, much like the recent instance at CMC, where a student misspeaking her views was viciously booed by the surrounding protesters. Even in this information era, spreading knowledge can’t always combat institutionalized problem as well as we’d like. As previously discussed, protests can also often grow repetitive, losing momentum. The right to freedom of expression and freedom to peaceful protest are crucial to the functional working of a democracy and can never be violated. It is impossible to underestimate the true value of non-violent resistance, although the message may sometimes get lost in translation. Through effective organization and clearly achievable goals, the power is protest can be incredibly potent and persuasive. Protest sparks global co operation in modern era: this is the first step towards change: occupy proves Gabatt Protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and the "Indignants" in Spain have spread to cities around the world. Tens of thousands went on the march in New York, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong as organisers aimed to "initiate global change" against capitalism and austerity measures. There were extraordinary scenes in New York where at least 10,000 protesters took their message from the outpost of Zuccotti Park into the heart of the city, thronging into Times Square. Only 36 hours earlier, police were preparing to evict the protest from Zuccotti Park. On Saturday they escorted thousands of marchers all day as they made their way uptown through Manhattan, and looked on as they held a rally at a New York landmark. Dave Bonan, who was at Occupy Wall Street on the first day of the protest a month ago, said it was "a little surreal" that the protest had spread. "I didn't expect it to last more than 15 minutes," he said. "The fact it lasted more than a day inspired people all over the world to capitalise – no pun intended – on our success." In Madrid, tens of thousands of people take a part in a demonstration in Puerta del Sol square in Madrid, home of the "Indignants" movement, which has been building through the summer as Spain's economy faltered. n London, dusk fell on more than 2,000 protesters assembled in front of St Paul's Cathedral in London, earlier addressed by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. There was civil unrest in Rome, where police turned teargas and water cannon on the crowds. Smoke hung over Rome as a small group broke away from the main demonstration and smashed windows, set cars on fire and assaulted television news crews. Others burned Italian and EU flags. "People of Europe: Rise Up!" read one banner in Rome. Fights broke out and bottles were thrown between demonstrators as some tried to stop the violence. In Germany, about 4,000 people marched through the streets of Berlin, with banners calling for an end to capitalism. Some scuffled with police as they tried to get near parliamentary buildings. In Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial capital, some 5,000 people protested in front of the European Central Bank. In the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, marchers carried pictures of Che Guevara and old communist flags that read "Death to capitalism, freedom to the people". Another 500 people gathered at a peaceful rally in Stockholm, holding up red flags and banners that read "We are the 99" – a reference to the richest 1 of the world's population who control its assets while billions live in poverty. "There are those who say the system is broke. It's not," trade union activist Bilbo Goransson shouted into a megaphone. "That's how it was built. It is there to make rich people richer." Asian nations, where the fallout from the banking crisis has been less severe, saw less well attended protests – 100 turned out in the Philippines. A group of 100 prominent authors including Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Pulitzer prize-winning novelists Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham signed an online petition declaring their support for "Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement around the world". Police in London made seven arrests and contained the crowd near St Paul's. Assange made a dramatic appearance, bursting through the police lines just after 2.30pm, accompanied by scores of supporters. To clapping and some booing, he climbed the cathedral steps to condemn "greed" and "corruption". In particular he attacked the City of London, accusing its financiers of money laundering and tax avoidance. "The banking system in London is the recipient of corrupt money," he said, adding that WikiLeaks would launch a campaign against financial institutions. Assange is on bail as he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation made by two women. Police in New York said they made 70 arrests. These were mostly at two flashpoints: 42 were detained near Times Square when attempts to disperse a crowd led to confusion; 24 Citibank customers who attempted to close their accounts in protest were led away for trespass after they opposed an order by the branch manager for them to leave. Barbara Quist, 67, was pushed around by police in Times Square. Quist, who used to work in the pharmaceutical industry but described herself as unemployed, said the treatment would not put her off further action. "I'm just another person that's just been run over by capitalism and greed." Ethan McGarry, 18, who had travelled to New York from Boston for the day, said it was "fantastic" how the occupy movement had spread. "People identify with us, then hey will find reasons in their own community for action." Lauren Zygmont had travelled from the Occupy Denver protest to New York a week ago ago. "Borders don't matter at all," she said. "Were all human beings, were all in this together. This is a global movement." Second is Kochs Koch efforts succeed as a backlash to free speech based protests Kotch 2 As far-right speakers face loud student opposition at their university speaking gigs, conservative lawmakers in several states are introducing legislation that cracks down on protesters. As uncovered by UnKoch My Campus’ Ralph Wilson, numerous states have borrowed their so-called “campus free speech” bills from the rightwing Goldwater Institute, which is funded by conservative plutocrats including Charles Koch and the Mercer family. The intent of these bills isn’t to protect student speech; it’s actually to suppress it in favor of guest speakers who, at times, support white nationalism, LGBTQ discrimination and other hateful worldviews. By funding the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, wealthy conservatives are enabling the promotion of hate speech while stifling student dissent. Whether or not Koch, for example, agrees with the hate speech he indirectly sponsors, he certainly benefits from a more friendly academic environment for far-right ideologues who often deny climate change and praise his extreme brand of tax- and regulation-free capitalism. The Goldwater Institute’s model bill allegedly ensures “the fullest degree of…free expression,” but it explicitly states that “protests and demonstrations that infringe upon the rights of others to engage in or listen to expressive activity shall not be permitted and shall be subject to sanction.” It goes on to say, “Any student who has twice been found responsible for infringing the expressive rights of others will be suspended for a minimum of one year, or expelled.” Under this code, imagine that a student protests a climate change denier and gets a brief suspension. Then the College Republicans group brings in a full-on white nationalist. Will this student do what she thinks is right and protest a racist who’s given a platform at a respected university, or stay home because she's risking expulsion? This campus "free speech” legislation is essentially an attack on student speech and an elevation of ultra-conservative ideas that many people in university communities think have no place in American society. “These laws would create a chilling effect on students who reject the idea that white supremacists or climate deniers are simply representing an ‘opposing viewpoint’ that should be tolerated, and who are rightfully relying on their first amendment freedoms to stop the rise of fascism and prevent global climate catastrophe,” Wilson, UnKoch’s senior researcher, told AlterNet. The group has been conducting research into Charles Koch’s considerable ideological donations to higher education, most of which goes toward free-market programs. Charles Koch Foundation representatives say that conservative views are underrepresented in higher education, and the foundation’s massive university donations—which fund free-market academic centers, professorships, grad students and lecture series—are necessary for academic freedom. This view is shared by other conservative billionaires and higher ed donors including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who recently said to the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, “The education establishment tells you what to think…the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.” What the Kochs and their allies really want, by amplifying the voices of far-right professors and guest speakers, is to steer society towards a tax- and regulation-free plutocracy. Charles and David Koch, who together are worth nearly $97 billion, have been working toward this goal for over 40 years. One of the model bill’s authors, Stanley Kurtz, is a longtime fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, which applies “the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy,” according to its website. The center has received millions of dollars in donations from the foundations of the conservative Bradley, Scaife, Olin and Earhart families, as well as hundreds of thousands from two vehicles for wealthy right-wing donors, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund. Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are responsible for more than $9 million in contributions to the two groups from 2006 to 2015, according to the website Conservative Transparency and additional research by this author. Much of the $6.3 million that went to Donors Trust came in 2015. A now-defunct Koch nonprofit, the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, donated $190,000 to the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Charles Koch Foundation has given over $9,000. The Goldwater Institute’s James Manley, senior attorney, and Jonathan Butcher, education director, also co-authored the “campus free speech” model legislation. The institute took in nearly $2.5 million from Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund from 2002-2015, according Conservative Transparency and additional research. The Charles Koch Foundation has pitched in $75,000. Manley formerly worked at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the two Donors funds. Butcher was a research assistant at the heavily Koch-funded Heritage Foundation from 2002 to 2006. Says Wilson, “These bills take Koch's academic presence to the next level, creating protected space to reveal the white supremacist roots of Koch's free market crusade, like Koch's close friend and white nationalist Charles Murray who has taken to campuses to espouse the genetic superiority of white males.” Another Koch-funded think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, reportedly has student groups at nearly 80 colleges and universities. These groups bring in AEI fellows like the eugenicist Murray to speak on their campuses. Recently, Murray attempted to give a lecture at Middlebury College in Vermont but was stymied by vociferous protests. He had to end his speech early, and he and a liberal professor were attacked on their way out. Students at UC Berkeley and area residents protested Yiannopoulos, whom the College Republicans had invited to speak. The protests led to fires, vandalism, and reportedly, fights. Until recently, Yiannopoulos was an editor at Breitbart News, known as the online “platform of the alt-right,” which happens to be funded by Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, the far-right mega-donors who are major Donald Trump backers and whose family foundation has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Goldwater Institute. The younger Mercer was even a member of Trump’s transition team. And there is a targeted goal to Koch’s campus presence: more Koch initiatives and conservative growth UnKoch Money influx main power behind climate denial: kill climate policy Goldenberg Underview
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TFA affTournament: TFA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Winston Churchill JL | Judge: Timmons
Winter and Leighton 99: I’ll specify how to weigh under the rotb: anything not here just ask in cx: no way you can say it won’t solve
The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate. Politic of Hope are good: it’s the only way to conceptualize repairing structural inequalities Material forms of rebellion are a prerequisite to any method that wants to access the path to change Fitzpatrick Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by…state and capital Inherency IPV causes homelessness and numbers high now: lack of housing leading cause of perpetration NLC Interpersonal ViolenceInterpersonal…of Interpersonal violence. Sixty-four percent…and food assistance.” The plan: The USFG ought to guarantee the right to housing for womxn Toward Freedom from Interpersonal violence: The Neglected Obvious BINA AGARWAL and PRADEEP PANDA Bina Agarwal is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, and Pradeep Panda is an independent consultant in New Delhi 2007 (CWLC) Property access in India proves violence goes down Agarwal and Panda 2 European efforts prove: right to housing lowers homelessness immensely Leruste Interp debaters may specify in only one form that form being a group of people and may only specify a group of people if there is a solvency advocate Standard is ground | 3/9/17 |
UVchangeTournament: tfa | Round: Semis | Opponent: dad | Judge: dad “domestic violence” is read as “violence” or “interpersonal violence” I’ll specify how to weigh under the rotb: anything not here just ask in cx: no way you can say it won’t solve Compare minimizations of oppression Politic of Hope are good: it’s the only way to conceptualize repairing structural inequalities Material forms of rebellion are a prerequisite to any method that wants to access the path to change Fitzpatrick Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies Tony Fitzpatrick Information, Communication and SocietyVol. 5 , Iss. 3,2002 Organised acts by…state and capital Inherency IPV causes homelessness and numbers high now: lack of housing leading cause of perpetration NLC Interpersonal ViolenceInterpersonal…of Interpersonal violence. Sixty-four percent…and food assistance.” The plan: The USFG ought to guarantee the right to housing for womxn Toward Freedom from Interpersonal violence: The Neglected Obvious BINA AGARWAL and PRADEEP PANDA Bina Agarwal is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, and Pradeep Panda is an independent consultant in New Delhi 2007 (CWLC) Property access in India proves violence goes down Agarwal and Panda 2 European efforts prove: right to housing lowers homelessness immensely Leruste Interp debaters may specify in only one form that form being a group of people and may only specify a group of people if there is a solvency advocate Standard is ground housing requires juxtaposed perspectives through synthesis to succeed: the net benefit is try and try yet again | 3/11/17 |
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