Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: DFVA | Judge: 

Framework

Rabkin '00 ~Jeremy, professor of government at Cornell University, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: WHY IT IS WORTH DEFENDING, World Family Policy Forum 2000~
Every modern country makes various compromises with democracy for the sake of order and stability
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. Will this task really be better accomplished by letting outsiders make the decisions

Freedom should be the goal of any political action – sovereignty is key

Arendt 54 Hannah Arendt, Former Professor of Political Philosophy at the new School for Social Research, BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE, 1954, p. 146.
Freedom, moreover, is not only one among the many problems and phenomena of
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reason d'être of politics is freedom and its field of experience is action.

Actions and by extension morality are contingent on sovereignty

Arendt 54 Hannah Arendt, Former Professor of Political Philosophy at the new School for Social Research, BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE, 1954, p. 146.
The field where freedom has always been known, not as a problem, to
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without, implicitly or explicitly, touching upon an issue of man's liberty.

Contention 1: Uranium Slavery

====Uranium mining has become the modern-day land grab, a justification for a new and universal colonial mode of control that strips away what little remains of aboriginal existence====
Endres '09 ~Endres, Danielle(2009)'The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision',Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,6:1,39 — 60~
Nuclear weapons and nuclear power have devastating consequences for local populations surrounding the sites of
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rhetorical strategies of nuclear colonialism, their consequences, and their continuing legacies.

Modern-day nuclear colonialism utilizes the legacy of legal colonialist structures in order to cheat natives out of their resources and living space – it's simply a continuation of the age-old master discourse

Endres '09 ~Endres, Danielle(2009)'The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision',Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,6:1,39 — 60~
The present form of colonialism in the US is what Al Gedicks has called resource
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the 1860s discursively relegates American Indian nations to a partial and contingent nationhood.

Indigenous people are seen as waste and fungible – every proposal for nuclear waste disposal is situated on Native lands, leading to billions of dollars worth of disease and plague

Harney '00 ~Corbin, Western shoshone spiritual leader, Yucca Mountain: No Place For Nuclear Waste, October 2000~
Yucca Mountain, in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation, is a place
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for our society to move towards wind, solar and other renewable resources.

This form of colonialism culminates in an extermination of indigenous identity through a forced unification, promoting mass structural violence and cultural erasure

Quijano 2000 (Anibal, Sociologist and humanist thinker, PhD from UNMSM in Peru, Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America" pg 550 – 551 + 572)
Historical process is, however, veryd ifferent. To start with, in
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serves as the universal classifier in the current global model of power.

Contention 2: Social Invisibility

The nuclear industry drives siting decisions – the desire for an easy and efficient process papers over the violence done to indigenous communities when risky technology is placed in their neighborhoods without their involvement. This leads to a "social invisibility" in which mass society is unaware of indigenous struggles

Foster '98 ~Sheila Foster Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law ARTICLE: Justice from the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, and the Transformative Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement 86 Calif. L. Rev. 775 July 1998~
Although the siting process does not produce the structured inequalities in communities such as Chester
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to the hazard," but rather that "the hazard comes to them."

Social invisibility causes extinction – produces background of structural violence that makes conflict and environmental collapse inevitable

Szentes '8 ~Tamás Szentes, a Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. "Globalisation and prospects of the world society" 4/22/08~
It' s a common place that human society can survive and develop only in a
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mass destructive weapons, and also due to irreversible changes in natural environment.

Social invisibility sustains an exclusionary policymaking praxis that sustains western modes of knowledge — affirmation is key to access true policymaking

Bruschke and Warner 03 (Dr. Ede Warner – Professor of Communications Studies at University of Louisville, Dr. Jon Bruschke – Professor in the Human Communication Studies department at California State University Fullerton, "GONE ON DEBATING:" COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC DEBATE AS A TOOL OF EMPOWERMENT FOR URBAN AMERICA," 2003, http://communications.fullerton.edu/clubs/forensics/pdf/Debate20as20a20Tool20of20empowerment.doc, XM)
What does empowerment mean? An understanding of the term must begin in our contemporary
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over their own lives" (Galston, 1996, p. 164).

Solvency

UN and IAEA can solve – NPT during the Cold War proves – biannual reviews and global buy-in ensure continuing authority

World Nuclear Association 2016 ~April 2016, Safeguards to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation, The World Nuclear Association is the international organization that represents the global nuclear industry. Its mission is to promote a wider understanding of nuclear energy among key international influencers by producing authoritative information, developing common industry positions, and contributing to the energy debate.~
Over the past 35 years the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) safeguards system
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nuclear activities, and those which have joined but disregard their treaty commitments.

Framing

You should privilege everyday violence for two reasons- A) social bias underrepresents its effects B) its effects are exponential, not linear which means even if the impact only causes a small amount of structural violence, its terminal impacts are huge

Nixon '11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3)
Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among them my conviction that we urgently
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in situations where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded.