Tournament: Berkeley Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: cherry creek | Judge:
The value is justice and the value criterion is deconstructing militarism. Justice is giving each their due, which cannot occur in a state of oppression.
The underlying reason you would want vote for this value calculus is because through war, militarism 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
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.
First- Uniqueness: 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 ‘05 (Socialist Workers) Cracking down on student protests, International Socialist Review10-7-2005 AT
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.
Elmer ‘08 (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)
Second- Solvency: 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
AND Student Protest in Campuses specifically allows for the instigation of dissent and questioning of the militarism in the departments in the University that fuel the war—Vietnam War proves
Tilly et. Al. ‘99 Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, Charles Tilly. (1999). How Social Movements Matter. University of Minnesota Press. AS
Even if you don’t buy our internal links- the aff creates a snowball effect: Colleges are the missing link in the expanding counter-movement to militarism – campus anti-war activism has failed to materialize, but is necessary to support broader global movements and turn the tide against the culture of US militarism
Harding and Kershner 11 (Scott Harding School of Social Work, University of Connecticut; and Seth Kershner, Simmons College) “Just say No”: Organizing Against Militarism in Public Schools” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 38 Iss. 2 (2011) AT