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The value is justice and the value criterion is reducing militarism. Justice is giving each their due, which cannot occur in a state of oppression.
AND, Militarism through war structures all inequalities—not the other way around
John Horgan, Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, 2012, The End of War, Chapter 5, Kindle p. 1600-1659
Throughout this book, I've examined attempts by scholars to identify factors especially conducive for
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healthcare and education, an improved legal and political system—work for peace
Militarism abroad causes violence at home – addressing the issue helps to dismantle the militaristic machine and challenge violence
Brian Trautman 16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Brian Trautman, writes for PeaceVoice, is a military veteran, an instructor of peace studies at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA, and a peace activist, ) Police Response in Ferguson Rooted in Systemic Violence and Militarism, Common Dreams 2-20-2016~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AT
To better understand, effectively reduce, and eventually prevent the underlying factors which led
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This action, change, and transformation are inevitable because justice demands it.
My thesis and sole contention is that campus activism is necessary to resist the push towards warfare. We need to allow students to express themselves freely, or else we risk justifying costly and unnecessary wars.
In the status quo, the student anti-militarism movement is back and growing – but colleges are cracking down. Ending the crackdown is key to the survival of the movement.
SW 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Socialist Workers) Cracking down on student protests, International Socialist Review10-7-2005~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AT
CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS are cracking down on student activists who stand up against the presence of
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HCC and GMU students have a more powerful movement that's got their back."
Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of California Farah Godrej. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014. AS
I have offered here a particular window into the ways in which the interests,
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of neoliberal privatization requires that dissent continue, despite its high "price."
Specifically, free speech zones stifle free speech. Rather than creating a space for speech, they confine dissent to overlooked corners of university campuses, where it is no longer effective. This regime of restrictions on free speech uses military tactics to suppress open debate and political dissent, an extension of the War on Terror
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
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political compliance as it is a technique for reducing actual risks and dangers.
However, legalizing protest can help solve. Political protest against war shifts national ideologies and can bring costly wars to an end.
Lieberfield 08 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Daniel Lieberfeld "WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT? THEME-ISSUE INTRODUCTION" International Journal of Peace Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AT
The contributions to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Peace Studies consider antiwar
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may shift public opinion so as to create political incentives for war termination.
Vietnam War empirically proves this. Student Protest in Campuses specifically allows for the instigation of dissent and questioning of the Military Industrial Complex within the departments in the University that fuel the war.
Tilly et. al. Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, Charles Tilly. (1999). How Social Movements Matter. University of Minnesota Press. AS
The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Science Although the United States had been involved
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have ignored these protests. Yet that is not how the story unfolded.
