Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: idk | Judge: Melin
First, structural violence transcends ethics. It pervades our thought processes and leads us to exclude and silence others and consider violence against them acceptable. Winter and Leighton 99.
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgeable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5
Finally, to recognize the operation … to empower citizens to reduce it.
Second, extractivism is acknowledging the ethical and environmental dilemmas of overconsumption. Extractivism does not value natural resources and views them as limitless. Willow 16.
Anna Willow. Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University“Indigenous ExtrACTIVISM in Boreal Canada: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles and Sovereign Futures.” Humanities. July 2016.
Extractivism does not simply mean … a global capitalist political economy.
Third, extractivism has colonial roots and contaminates sacred land. Indigenous People are fighting against extractivism. Willow II.
Anna Willow. Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University“Indigenous ExtrACTIVISM in Boreal Canada: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles and Sovereign Futures.” Humanities. July 2016.
Likewise, while Indigenous objectors to … by inadequately regulated industrial expansion 20.
Fourth, Indigeneity is listening to the political views of Indigenous People, which are anti-extractivism. Picq 14.
Manuela Picq. Center for World Indigenous Studies.“SELF-DETERMINATION AS ANTI-EXTRACTIVISM: HOW INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE CHALLENGES WORLD POLITICS.” IC Magazine. June 2, 2014
Indigeneity is an unusual way … community-based consultations since 2005 (MacLeod and Pérez 2013).
Thus, the standard is rejecting structural violence through challenging extractivism and embracing Indigeneity.
The aff advocates a phase out of all nuclear energy.
The Indigenous Environmental Network, or the IEN, is “an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination and exploitation maintaining and respecting Indigenous Teachings and Natural Law.” Tom Goldtooth explains that the IEN advocates a phase out of nuclear power plants. Goldtooth 09.
Tom Goldtooth. 2009. “Statement Against Toxic Nuclear Colonialism” Indigenous Environmental Network
Ceremonial responsibilities back here in Minnesota … future generation is at stake.
First, nuclear colonialism has clear roots in extractivism. Willow III.
Anna Willow. Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University“Indigenous ExtrACTIVISM in Boreal Canada: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles and Sovereign Futures.” Humanities. July 2016.
Dene in Canada’s Northwest Territories remember … Dél ̨ine “a community of widows” (55, p. 38).
Second, nuclear colonialism is nuclear power operated by the government and corporations at the expense of Indigenous population. Endres 09.
Endres, Danielle. 2009. 'The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision'.
Every stage in the nuclear production … survival and their self-determination.
Third , along with its ecological harms, nuclear colonialism disrupts the culture of Indigenous people by altering the availability of traditional food and medicine. Sherwood 16.
Yvonne Sherwood. a member of the Yakama Nation; doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Sociology Rudolph C. Rÿser and Janna Lafferty “The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud.” Truthout. 27 March 2016
Nuclear weapons, electrical power reactors … of their cultures and community.
Fourth , nuclear states rely almost exclusively on Indigenous territories to store waste and they don’t listen to indigenous people when making these decisions. Sherwood II.
Yvonne Sherwood. a member of the Yakama Nation; doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Sociology Rudolph C. Rÿser and Janna Lafferty “The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud.” Truthout. 27 March 2016
The Yakama Nation and her … disposing of the deadly materials
Fifth, Uranium mining has health impacts that can affect locals for generations and hurts local agriculture which has negative economic impacts. Perez 16.
Jessica Ordóñez Pérez American University. “The Negative Effects of the Mining Industry on Mount Taylor, New Mexico.” April 2016. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51624bdce4b058e82d8a2faf/t/572ccd4ae707ebbe11753a15/1462553930996/The+Negative+Effects+of+the+Mining+Industry+on+Mt+Taylor2C+NM+28Ordonez+Perez+201629.pdf
According to the article “Uranium … but also for dairy producers.