Tournament: Lone Star NatQuals | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: John Sims
The resolution's use of the word "ought" implies a moral obligation
Morality allows us to perceive what is inherently good or bad. It's the value upon which we can conceptualize all other values, thus it must be prioritized.
Structural violence outweighs all impacts – it destroys access and overwhelms individual's abilities to live
Ansell 17 (David A. Ansell, Senior Vice President, Associate Provost for Community Health Equity, and Michael E. Kelly Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago), holds an M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine, 2017, "American Roulette," The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Published by the University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226428291, p. kindle 307-363)
There are many different kinds of violence. Some are obvious: punches, attacks
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others like Windora through suffering, poverty, ill health, and violence.
Dean 12, (Amy B. Dean Amy B. Dean is a fellow of the Century Foundation and a principal of ABD Ventures, a consulting firm that works to develop innovative strategies for organizations devoted to social change. She is a co-author, with David Reynolds, of "A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement.") 12-11-2012, "OPINION: We need labor journalism now more than ever", America.aljazeera, http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/we-need-labor-journalism-now-more-than-ever.html PM
First, those working to improve social justice know that framing the narrative is critical
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and at the polls, to help create movements that cannot be ignored.
Wallace 21, (Lewis Raven Wallace is a journalist based in Durham, NC. He writes and produces audio about oppression in journalism, transgender issues, race and class) 12-26-2021, "The View from Somewhere," University of Chicago Press, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo29172094.html (Cut from Conclusion: The End of Journalism) PM
I'll admit: I seek refuge in the NPR newscast at the top of every
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extractive approach to journalism in which the journalist is never implicated or accountable.
Labor Unions decrease the impact and extent of poverty. When unions suffer, poverty increases.
VanHeuvelen and Brady 21, (Tom VanHeuvelen assistant professor of sociology @ University of Minnesota and David Brady, Professor of public policy @ University of California, Riverside) 7-7-2021, "How labor unions can help reduce the risk of poverty", Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-labor-unions-help-reduce-risk-poverty-2021-7 PM
Belonging to a union or living in a US state where organized labor is relatively
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their membership again and provide these types of protections against adverse economic forces.
Gilligan, 2K James, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, 2000, p 195-196.
The 14 to 18 million deaths a year caused by structural violence compare with about
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the weak and poor every year of every decade, throughout the world.