Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Coral NM | Judge: Kaitlin Coltin

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.  The value is quality of life.

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."

In attempt to stifle the anti-war movement, the militarized state has cracked down on resistance to militarism – free speech zones criminalize and marginalize political protests into media spectacles incapable of effectuating change – policing tactics reinforce the violent logic of pre-emption that underlies global warfare

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.

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
Discussion Counter-recruitment demands that its activists perform the same sorts of functions normally
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also bolster global defenses against militarism at a time of increasingly global war.

It’s try or die for the global resistance – a brutal eruption of warfare and fascistic violence will soon engulf the globe – but the conditions are ripe for an equally powerful opposition movement to prevent global catastrophe. The value criterion is minimizing suffering.

Socialist Equality Party (Uk) 16 ~(Socialist Equality Party (Uk), ) For A New Socialist Movement Against Militarism, Austerity And War, International Committee Of The Fourth International 11-14-2016~ AT

1. The Third National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) endorses
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   the eradication of poverty and the raising of human culture to new heights.

Independently – Militarism requires dissent to be suppressed in colleges and universities to be criminalized – it is part and parcel of the state’s dissemination militarization of education and society at large

Godrej 14 Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent:  Policing Protest at the University of California Godrej Farah. 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."

Thus, I advocate that public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected free speech.

Contention 2 is Solvency

Student protest on 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—Vietnam War proves

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. 

Anti-war activism is alive and larger than ever – social media technologies and movement miscibility allow movements to gain wider audiences and challenge US militarism broadly – now is the key time for the movement to flourish

Vasi 06 ~Ion Bogdan Vasi (2006) The New Anti-war Protests and Miscible Mobilizations, Social Movement Studies, 5:2, 137-153~ AT
Mobilization against war has been one of the most visible forms of collective action in
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mobilization and to focus further research on the fluid processes of miscible mobilizations.

Contention 3 is framing

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

Debate about arcane legal details are crucial to the short-term survival of oppressed populations

Arkles et al 10 (Gabriel Arkles, Pooja Gehi and Elana Redfield, The Role of Lawyers in Trans Liberation: Building a Transformative Movement for Social Change, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 8 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 579, Spring / Summer, 2010)
While agenda-setting by lawyers can lead to the replication of patterns of elitism
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going to continue to have to navigate government agencies and organizations to survive.

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