Tournament: TFA state | Round: 2 | Opponent: clements ec | Judge: tyler gamble
Interpretation: The aff must use HUD to fund the public housing even though there are other agencies they all funnel the funding through HUD which distributes it locally and regionally and must provide maintenance for these houses
Turner and Kingsley 08
Federal Programs for Addressing Low-Income Housing Needs A Policy Primer MARGERY AUSTIN TURNER AND G. THOMAS KINGSLEY December 2008 http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/32191/411798-Federal-Programs-for-Addressing-Low-Income-Housing-Needs.PDF

Secondarily, to ensure the right to housing the houses must have maintenance and services available
NESRI nd National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, In partnership with communities, NESRI works to build a broad movement for economic and social rights, including health, housing, education and work with dignity. Based on the principle that fundamental human needs create human rights obligations on the part of government and the private sector, NESRI advocates for public policies that guarantee the universal and equitable fulfillment of these rights in the United States. What is the Human Right to Housing? Rights-Based Urban Development , NESRI, Date Accessed 2/8/17 https://www.nesri.org/programs/what-is-the-human-right-to-housing Premier https://www.nesri.org/programs/what-is-the-human-right-to-housing

Violations: The aff uses instead of HUD and the aff doesn’t provide maintenance for the houses
Standards:
Real World Applicability
Ground
Research Burden
Err neg
Predictability
Limits
Voters:
-Education:
-Fairness
Drop the Debater on T.

Tournament: grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: burleson centennial | Judge:
Fiat is illusory. When we talk about passing plans or acting as policy makers inside of the statusquo, it is all an imaginary experiment that has no real world implications beyond the imaginary world we create. The action of assuming that a plan is passing and an action is taken discloses the possibility that our individual actions can have an effect to actually make change and assumes only institutions can make change. Even we individually cannot have as huge as an impact as an institution it is still more productive to talk about the things we can do rather than imagine the things we will never be capable of. Fiat double bind: Either the harms are the are true and they cannot solve for their impacts before they control the levers of power OR their harms are constructed for the purpose of alarmism which means you can vote on principle. This means that they not only lack solvency but forclose tehe possibility of having an impact in the real world.
Their model of fiat cedes the political and papers over personal responsibility
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence: The politics of personal behavior, Pg. 10-11)

THE IMMINENT THREAT OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION HAS LITERALLY BECOME A NON-EVENT, FOR THE EXPLOSIVE ENERGY OF THE NUCLEAR HAS BEEN PROGRAMMATICALLY INTEGRATED INTO THE STRATEGIES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLOSION. THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE NUCLEAR, OF A DETERRENCE WITHOUT ANY BOUNDARIES OR OBJECTIVES, ARE A FIXTURE OF A GLOBAL POWER THAT LEVELS OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY TRUE CONFLICT OR EVENT IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE THE POLITICAL INTO THE TOTALIZING LOGIC OF SECURITY. EVEN THE MOST PEACEFUL ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENTS ARE NEUTRALIZED BY THE MODELS OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE, WHICH OPERATE AT THE LEVEL OF MOLECULAR AND PROGRAMMATIC CONTROL.
Baudrillard ’95
(Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation: The Precession of Simulacra”, pp. 34-37) 

Attempts to stop terrorism is bond on a simulated ideas of good and evil, and justifies western globalization which increases cultural conflicts and terrorism
Baudrillard ’2
(Jean, “The Spirit of Terrorism: The Spirit of Terrorism”, Verso 2002, translated by Chris Turner, pp. 8-14) 

Power in American society is predicated on our societal fear of biological death that makes enjoying the process of life impossible. This allows for coercive and unwarranted threats that turn the Other into something dangerous that we should protect ourselves from. Live humans create productivity for those in power, but when we reduce life to productivity, life becomes meaningless for the individual.  Robinson 12:
Andrew Robinson (Author, writer for Ceasefire Magazine, political theorist and activist based in the UK)” Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism and the Exclusion of Death” March 30, 2012. https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2/

We have to affirm or change of the symbolic level to truly stop the symbols of life, culture, and terror. Working on the realm of the real exclusively dooms us to error replication
Baudrillard   Jean, Badass, Symbolic Exchange and Death 76

The K is the needed nihilistc speak act the that is key to breaking the symbolic order.
Baudrillard in 81:
Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation.” Published 1984, in English in 1994. 

THE ALT is a symbolic act of identifying with the Other. We can’t do anything cause we are high schoolers but we can still affirm the resolution on the symbolic level and have solvency and impacts on the symbolic level. The best way to do that is to affirm the topic symbolically to trivialize cultures around the world that legitimize the fear of death. you recognize the other is not death Stavrakakis 99 

Yannis Stavrakakis (Fellow, University of Essex), “Lacan and the Political: Thinking the Politics”, 1999. http://www.mediafire.com/view/f5ei7v5r2yuiidp/Stavrakakis_-_Lacan_and_the_political.pdf 

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best methodologically and performatively affirms identity outside of death. Prefer this methodology as it is a prerequisite to even the topic, as we must address how we engage the topic and debate
Baudrillard ’5  
(Jean, “The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact: Do You Want to be Anyone Else?”, Berg 2005, translated by Chris Turner, pp. 55-59)

Tournament: grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: alberquere | Judge:
Progress is only possible by first accounting for the original sin of the U.S. nation state, the failure to engage the subject of the Indigenous homeland as a first priority is a strategic silence

Churchill 96

WARD CHURCHILL, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ETHNIC STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER 1996 “I AM INDIGENIST,” FROM A NATIVE SON PGS 520-30

The law is inherently Eurocentric and the appearance of legality is used to disguise the colonialist intentions of the plan. 

Kenneth B. Nunn, prof. of law, University of Florida School of Law, in 1997  “Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise,” Law and Inequality, Spring, p. lexis 

Coloniality naturalizes a non-ethics of death and generalizes the condition of damnation—ongoing genocide, enslavement, rape, ecological destruction and unending war is produced by and reproduces colonial epistemologies.

Maldonado-Torres 2008 Nelson. “Against War : Views from the Underside of Modernity”¶ Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2008. p 215-217¶ http://site.ebrary.com/lib/utexas/Doc?id=10217191andppg=52

The alternative is to reject the right of the U.S. nation state to cooperate with Indigenous tribes and let Indigenous people decide what happens to their own land – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy for overthrowing oppression of Native American tribes                          

Churchill 96

WARD CHURCHILL, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ETHNIC STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER 1996 “I AM INDIGENIST,” FROM A NATIVE SON PGS 89-94

Tournament: strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: logan reed | Judge: kris wright
open source

Tournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Mutual Exclusivity: Reforms to the legal system which attempt to alleviate inequalities are coopted by the right to strengthen the prison industrial complex.
Shaylor, Cassandra. “Reform And Abolition: Points of Tension And Connection.” Defending Justice. No Date. Web. October 07, 2016. http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/organizing/shaylor_reform.html. 

Solvency: Decarceration is the only solution.
Shaylor, Cassandra. “Reform And Abolition: Points of Tension And Connection.” Defending Justice. No Date. Web. October 07, 2016. http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/organizing/shaylor_reform.html.

Tournament: grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: alberquere | Judge:
Implementing the AC results in decommissioned nuclear factories filled with nuclear material they can no longer use and must dispose of. This will result in the creation of “sacrifice zones”, places designated for radioactive waste dumping
Schneider, Keith. "Dying Nuclear Plants Give Birth to New Problems." The New York Times. The New York Times, 30 Oct. 1988. Web. 09 Aug. 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/31/us/dying-nuclear-plants-give-birth-to-new-problems.html?pagewanted=all.

We must recognize national sacrifice zones as the cost of closing nuclear power plants
KEITH SCHNEIDER, 1988, “Dying Nuclear Plants Give Birth to New Problems”, journalist and policy strategist, interest in economic and environmental urgency, http:www.nytimes.com/1988/10/31/us/dying-nuclear-plants-give-birth-to-new-problems.html?pagewanted=all  --PHSAK 

Minority communities are targeted by industries as sites for national sacrifice zones. Because the nuclear industry deems them disposable, black and brown communities are forced to live in deadly pollution. It is killing them
Byrnes 10
Fenceline Patrol American Scientist Magazine Book Review by Lauren Byrnes, Sara Mele, Daniel Faber SACRIFICE ZONES: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States 

Passing the AC and creating sacrifice zones continues the legacy of racism and colonialism
Dullard, Robert D. "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY." (n.d.): n. pag. Deanza.edu. 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 9 Aug. 2016. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/ejinthe21century.htm./.latest_citation_text
Exploitation of Land, Environment, and People

Tournament: UT | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge: alexander chase
Uniqueness - SCOTUS is going to reach a split 4-4 decision on Jennings vs Rodriguez, which affirms the appellate decision

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, 11/29/16,  Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is an expert in constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He’s the author of seven books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court (Viking, 2014)., www.abajournal.com/news/article/chemerinsky_due_process_and_detention

Link – The Supreme court is focusing on Jennings v Rodriguez now, but the Aff causes an expedited hearing on the case of QI which empirically disrupts and delays the docket.

Lomi Kriel, August 6, 2014, reporter Houston Chronicle, http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Expediting-child-immigrant-cases-disrupts-docket-5673373.php

Internal Link – A delay of the Jennings vs. Rodriguez case means that Trump’s appointee will be apart of the decision. Trump’s SCOTUS appointee will tilt the court right, meaning a 5-4 for decision against the appellate
ADAM LIPTAK, 11/09/16, covers the United States Supreme Court and writes "Sidebar," a column on legal developments. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years before joining The New York Times's news staff in 2002. He was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. He has taught courses on the Supreme Court and the First Amendment at several law schools, including Yale and the University of Chicago, www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-supreme-court.html 

Impact - Overturning the appellate decision will embolden Trump’s crackdown and lead to years of detainment for immigrants

David G. Savage, 11/29/16, Contact Reporter, http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-deportation-trump-20161129-story.html

Jennings v Rodriguez is the key to prevent years of surveillance, strip searches, lack of food or medical supplies, physical and mental abuse, and the destruction of entire families-- this impacts children, the elderly, victims of torture, people with illnesses, and women

CIVIC and IRC, accessed online 12/01/16, no date given, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) and the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the New York University School of Law (IRC), https://www.prolongeddetentionstories.org/101/

Defending immigrant rights is a moral voter

GARY GUTTING and JOSEPH CARENS 11/25/14, Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. He is the author, most recently, of “Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy since 1960,” and writes regularly for The Stone, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/should-immigrants-lose-their-human-rights/?_r=0

Prolonged immigrant detainment violates international law

Amnesty International, accessed online 12/01/16, no date, global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights, http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/refugee-and-migrant-rights/immigration-detention

Any U.S. reservations undermines the project of international law and human rights
Kristina Ash JD candidate @ Northwestern ‘5, 2005 J.D. Candidate, Northwestern University School of Law 2005 Northwestern University, School of Law Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights Spring, 2005 3 Nw. U. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 7  “U.S. Reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Credibility Maximization and Global Influence” LEXIS

And, Incorporation of I-Law in individual cases spills over and can’t be rolled back
Kundmueller JD Candidate @ ND ’02 (Michelle Kundmueller. University of Notre Dame, Candidate for J.D. and M.A. in Political Theory .Journal of Legislation 2002 (28 J. Legis. 359) “NOTE: THE APPLICATION OF CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW IN U.S. COURTS: CUSTOM, CONVENTION, OR PSEUDOLEGISLATION?”  http://www.lexisnexis.com:80/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=trueandrisb=21_T7081247100andformat=GNBFIandsort=BOOLEANandstartDocNo=1andresultsUrlKey=29_T7081247104andcisb=22_T7081247103andtreeMax=trueandtreeWidth=0andcsi=138729anddocNo=5) 

I-Law is key to solve ecocide
Gray 96 Mark, First Secretary, Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Spring, 26 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 215

The impact to ongoing ecocide is extinction
Diner JD, ‘94 (Diner, David N. B.S. Recipient. Ohio State University. J.D. Recipient. College of Law. Ohio State University. LL.M. The Judge Advocate General’s School. United States Army. Judge Advocate’s General’s Corps. United States Army. “The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who’s Endangering Whom?” Military Law Review. 143 Mil. L. Rev. 161. Winter, 1994. Lexis-Nexis.)

Tournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: kinkaid | Judge: sse
The aff coins Fukishima as a “Made in Japan” disaster and does not take it as a universal lesson
Morley et al, David, 1995, “SPACES OF IDENTITY Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries” pg. 147-174, Routledge, https://monoskop.org/images/3/39/Robins_Kevin_Morley_David_Spaces_of_Identity_Global_Media_Electronic_Landscapes_and_Cultural_Boundaries_1995.pdf  --PHSAK 

The aff assumes that modernity is a western concept and is anxious about Japan’s technological advancement because it is a threat to western identity
Morley et al, David, 1995, “SPACES OF IDENTITY Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries” pg. 147-174, Routledge, https://monoskop.org/images/3/39/Robins_Kevin_Morley_David_Spaces_of_Identity_Global_Media_Electronic_Landscapes_and_Cultural_Boundaries_1995.pdf  --PHSAK 

The aff cannot separate themselves from their western identity which has been preconditioned to devalue other cultures in the age of globalization
Morley et al, David, 1995, “SPACES OF IDENTITY Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries” pg. 147-174, Routledge, https://monoskop.org/images/3/39/Robins_Kevin_Morley_David_Spaces_of_Identity_Global_Media_Electronic_Landscapes_and_Cultural_Boundaries_1995.pdf  --PHSAK 

Techno orientalism subjects the Japanese to be “other” and allows the west to overlook its own mistakes
Ishihara, Shintaro, 2013, “The Japan That Can Say No”, Japanese politician and author who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012, http://mohsen.banan.1.byname.net/content/republished/doc.public/politics/japan/publication/japanSaysNo/japanSaysNo.pdf --PHSAK

Alt
The alternative is to destroy the idea that Japan’s success was an accident by voting down the aff
Robertson, Roland, 1992, “Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture” pg. 85-86, SAGE, sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectures at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, https://books.google.com/books?hl=enandlr=andid=eVMmonrrZDkCandoi=fndandpg=PR9anddq=Globalization:+Social+Theory+and+Global+Culture+japanandots=KX9k4N0dtlandsig=uhLZ9PJwI5QYg23dnHp3zWRA7gw --PHSAK

Tournament: greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: brentwood | Judge: jen melin
Burning fossil fuels releases CO2; emissions cause global warming. EPA 16,
EPA 2016 United States Environmental Protection Agency “Causes of Climate Change”

Prohibiting production of nuclear powers creates a world in which we don’t have access to nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is our best alternative clean energy if we get rid of it we are forced to default back to the same things that have been killing our planet. Sieed 15
Jubair Sieed 2015   Proc. Of the seminar on Nuclear Energy in Bangladesh and safety issues “Nuclear Energy: Nuclear Electricity and a Clean Environment.” Vol. 20. ML

Warming specifically targets black and brown bodies.
Wise 08:
Wise 10. Tim Wise, renowned anti-racist activist and theorist, advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, doesn’t need a degree in climate science because he is talking about the social theory behind global warming, “With Friends Like These, Who Needs Glenn Beck?”  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/08/18/894176/-With-Friends-Like-These-Who-Needs-Glenn-Beck-Racism-and-White-Privilege-on-the-Liberal-Left#

Tournament: grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: alberquere | Judge:
Counterplan text: Continue the production of nuclear power and dispose of high level waste on the moon
Jonathan Coopersmith. 1999. “DISPOSAL OF WGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE IN SPACE” Texas AandM University.  Space Studies Institute

Lunar Surface is safest place to dispose of nuclear waste
NASA, 1978, “Nuclear Waste Disposal in Space” pg. 35, Stanford Edu, http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/parekh2/docs/burns.pdf  --PHSAK

Advantage one: the development of better space exploration
Coopersmith, Johnathan, 2005, “Nuclear Waste in Space?”, History and Technology Professor at Texas AandM, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/437/1  --PHSAK