Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Johns AW | Judge: Marilyn Myrick
====The resolution demands that we discuss nuclear power through the lens of the liberal Humanist discourse of the settler colonial state that will always undermine the interests and the demands of the natives for land. We constantly see the use of rhetoric in discussions of nuclear power framed around protecting the settler and to keep them from feeling guilty. This discussion would merely manifest re-center the colonizer and the colonized systems of exploitation that reproduces because of the grand structure of settler colonialism. ====
Meet Charley Colorado, a man part of the Navajo who lived in his ancestral sheepherding grounds where the United States had uranium mine shafts in 1957. Today he faces extreme consequences as a result of the US's failure to notify indigenous people with the dangers and consequences of radioactive waste that they were being exposed to.
Brandon Loomis, the Republic, azcentral.com
Now, Colorado, 87, spends much of his time wedged between a medical
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Linda. "They didn't tell the people. None of them knew."
====The pacific islands and southwestern regions of the United States are plagued by nuclear colonialism- the resolution's focus on countries relationship to nuclear power paves over those whose land an lives have been irreparably changed by nuclear energy. We much attune our discourse to those areas that are constantly asked to be forgotten====
Hsu, Hsuan. "Nuclear Colonialism." Environment and Society Portal. Virtual Exhibitions, n.d. Web. Sept.-Oct. 2016.
The impact of US nuclear testing had been ~is~particularly heavy on two
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to the international network of indigenous rights and sovereignty.—Kuletz 2002, 132
Nuclear testing, uranium mining, and waste dumping has all occured at the expense of Indigenous lives and their land. While the countries gain access to the benefits of entering the nuclear community, all the advantages to nuclear energy that the negative discusses come at the bodily and cultural destruction of native bodies, there is blood on their hands.
Endres 09 (Endres, Danielle. "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6.1 (2009): 39-60. JSTOR. Web. 19 Aug. 2016.)
Since the Manhattan Project, we have seen the Janus-faced development of nuclear
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through contaminated soil and water, which could harm animal and plant life.
====Thus, we demand that the production of nuclear power ought to be prohibited. The 1AC is a form of indigenous activism and resistance that is key to breakdown the discursive structures that maintain global settler colonialism. Nuclear colonialism is not only witnessed in the acts of nuclear waste and dumping but also the rhetoric in which we discuss nuclear power will always exclude the native. ====
Endres 09 (Endres, Danielle. "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6.1 (2009): 39-60.JSTOR. Web. 19 Aug. 2016.)
American Indian resistance is an important part of the story of ~to~ nuclear
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that would power the atomic bomb and help America stare down the Soviets.
Settler colonialism is the impetus and structure that produces indigenous, racial violence, and neoliberalism. White settler alienation from land and maintenance of excess on land that sets the impetus for neoliberal domination- any alternative that endorses unclear power or the state will always reproduce indigenous violence
Tuck and Yang 12
(Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, Eve Tuck State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego)TR
Incommensurability is an acknowledgement that decolonization will require a change in the order of the
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. Today, 85 of people incarcerated at Angola, die there.
Procedural arguments like T and theory are just another tool to maintain settler colonialism and whiteness in debate and this is a reverse voting issue – their reading of procedurals replicates the disciplinary power of the state over native populations. Think about it, the negative will constantly change the goal posts of what is considered "acceptable" to benefit their privileged stance in debate, this is no different than the history of broken treaties and trading in glass beads that have been staples of whiteness. Their interpretation of debate is an attempt to erase Indigeneity to create another space of exception which is key to maintain the sovereignty of settlerism
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(Adam J. Barker, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, "(RE)ORDERING THE NEW WORLD: SETTLER COLONIALISM, SPACE, AND IDENTITY", Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Leicester, Page 225-234, December 2012)
Historical geographer Cole Harris chose to reprint his essay 'The Good Life Around Idaho
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to differentiate between genocidal acts based on arbitrary distinctions, splitting colonial hairs.
The ROB is to vote for the debater that best deconstructs settler colonialism. I advocate the judge to adopt an alternative framework through red pedagogy. Decolonization is a movement that is a constant process to challenge entrenched thoughts and modes of thinking.
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(Sandy, "Red Pedagogy," pg. 165-167)
As we raise yet another generation in a nation at war, it is even
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) model for self-determined and self-directed communities.
Matsuda '89 ~Mari, Associate Professor of Law @ the University of Hawaii, "When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method", 11 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 7 1989~
The multiple consciousness I urge lawyers to attain is not a random ability to see
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for these writers as they enter into mainstream debates about law and theory.
