Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: John | Judge: Cena

Part One is Framework - the Standard for this round should be Rejecting Colonialism. The debater that does the best job of uncovering and rejecting colonial arguments and actions should win. Prefer my Standard for two Reasons:

First – Racism - Colonialism is ethically unacceptable because it is based on racist assumptions and eradicates other ways of thought – no benefit that comes from colonial actions can justify those assumptions

Shaikh, 2007 - writer at Asia Source ~Nermeen Development 50, "Interrogating Charity and the Benevolence of Empire," Palgrave-Journals~
It would probably be incorrect to assume that the principal impulse behind the imperial conquests
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identities in Palestine and the Mediterranean generally (Anidjar, 2003, 2007).

Racism is a side-constraint on any ethical theory.

Memmi, 2000 - prof of sociology @ U of Paris ~Albert. Racism. Trans. Steve Martinot. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2000.
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.

Second is Individual Identity - Ultimately, your ballot will not change the world, it will only comment on you and your belief system. Relying on colonialist assumptions for your decision calculus is morally diseased and deprives your ballot of all meaning –only rejecting colonialism can reject these assumptions

Harzenski 2003 – professor of law at temple law school ~sharon, post-colonial studies: terrorism, a history, stage two, temple international and comparative law journal, fall, 2003, 17 temp. Int'l and comp. L.j. 351,~
 ~*405~  Michel Foucault tells us that even as a child he knew
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with you as a testament to the shaping I have been speaking about.

The Role of the ballot – you should adopt the Coloniality/Modernity lens – you should view the resolution as opening questions into the colonial assumptions of nuclear power – this is essential to find new epistemologies

Escobar 10 – PhD in Philosophy, Policy, and Planning (Arturo, 7 June 2010, 'WORLD AND KNOWLEDEGES OTHERWISE," Cultural Studies, 21: 2, 179 — 210, http://www.unc.edu/~~aescobar/text/eng/escobar.2007.CulturalStudies.21-2-3.pdf)
In short, the perspective of modernity/coloniality provides an alternative framework for debates
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to, and outside of, the often imperialistic discourses that construct it.

I undermine the Epistemology that the negative relies on. Nuclear science discourse pretends to be objective while marginalizing native American knowledge as social or cultural. This marginalization is a form of colonialism.

Kuletz 1998 – prof of American Studies at the University of Canterbury ~Valerie, The Tainted Desert p p xvii-vxiii
An ethnoecological methodology such as I employ here that lends equal credence to both Native
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further investigations of nuclear colonialism internationally and in the twenty-first century. 

Epistemology comes first – the lens through which we view the resolution is a prior question to its political effect – only examining discourse can understand the current system

Escobar 10 – PhD in Philosophy, Policy, and Planning (Arturo, 12 January 2010, 'LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS', Cultural Studies, 24: 1, 1 — 65, http://www.unc.edu/~~aescobar/text/eng/escobar.2010.CulturalStudies.24-1.pdf)
Despite the contradictory and diverse forms it has taken in the present decade, the
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of the project of bringing about modernity in the continent since the Conquest.

Discourse – Nuclear colonialist language is based on an ontology that marginalizes indigenous knowledge – this ontological violence manifests in physical violence.

Kato 1993 - prof of Political Science Univ of Hawaii ~Masahide "Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze", Alternatives, 18:3 Summer, p 354-355~
The latest form of domination through the mimetic relationship between (the First World)
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physical violence against the Third World, Fourth World, and Indigenous Peoples.

My Contention is that Nuclear Power is colonialist.

1. Geography - The Euroamerican world mines for uranium and disposes of nuclear waste on indigenous lands because it views those lands as wastelands and natives as savages. This is the root of nuclear colonialism.

Kuletz 1998 – prof of American Studies at the University of Canterbury ~Valerie, The Tainted Desert p XV-XIX~
Whether they exist alongside the uranium mining districts, the nuclear research and development centers
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the natural world demonstrates how one cultural view comes to dominate the other. 

2. Nuclear Waste - Nuclear power entrenches environmental racism against native Americans – waste disposal is pushed through economic exploitation which undermines native sovereignty

Lopez, 2004 – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation ~Bayley  "Radioactive Reservations: The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land," 9-1-2004, http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/01_lopez_radioactive-reservations.htm)
Nuclear waste is not just an issue for those who live near a nuclear reactor
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to reverse this trend, beginning with the government's policies on nuclear waste. 

3. Nuclear Mining - Uranium mining continues genocide against Indigenous people. Land is stolen and polluted because uranium mining is concentrated on indigenous lands.

Johansen 1995 - prof of Communication and Native American Studies at Univ of Nebraska ~Bruce with Donald Grinde Ecocide Of Native America, P. 205-210~
The uranium rush in the Black Hills began at the same time that the American
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for a future free of the threat of genocide for our children.'