Tournament: Isidore Newman | Round: 1 | Opponent: Maggie L Walker Governors MG | Judge: William Mitchell-Wilson
Contention 1 is Gender Equality
Strikes are a powerful tool used by women to achieve equality, justice, and the protection of their rights in the status quo. This is crucial at a time when women have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sylvie, B. (2020, April 13). Gender Equality: Why it Matters, Especially in a Time of Crisis. World Bank. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/opinion/2020/04/13/gender-equality-why-it-matters-especially-in-a-time-of-crisis.
Despite this meaningful
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continue to increase
This international strike was used by women to push for equality and bring attention to the violation of women’s rights around the globe.
Topping, A., and Redden, M. (2017, March 7). 'We are international, we are everywhere': women unite in global strike. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/international-womens-day-political-global-strike.
Women in more
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not the finger.”
In recent years, strikes have become a main method for Argentinian women to protest the widespread violence against women in Argentina.
Newbery, C. (2016, October 20). A Rape and Murder Prompts Thousands of Argentine Women to Protest. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/americas/argentina-protest-women-sexual-violence-rape-murder.html.
Women across Argentina
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of domestic violence.
These strikes are a way to raise awareness for the violence and inequality against women that happens in their country.
Booth, A. (2020, March 10). Women's strike in Argentina: "If our lives are worthless, produce without us". Toward Freedom. https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/womens-strike-in-argentina-if-our-lives-are-worthless-produce-without-us/.
Yesterday, Argentine feminists
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anymore,” she said
The strikes have been successful ways of getting both the world and government officials to recognize the gender inequality in Argentina.
Heiman, J., and Hoffman, A. (2020, March 9). Thousands rally to demand gender equality in National Feminist Strike. Buenos Aires Times. https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/thousands-gather-for-national-feminist-strike-to-demand-equality.phtml.
This walk-out came
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we’re striving for.”
The impact to this is achieving gender equality -
It’s key that we focus on gender equality because it is a precondition for eliminating poverty, ending violence, and achieving a just democracy.
SPL No Date - Sexuality, Poverty, and Law Programme, This programme provides new evidence-based knowledge and new policy options that support efforts to: (1) strengthen, through legal reform, the rights of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex) people and others marginalised because of their sexuality; and (2) support LGBTI people and others marginalised because of their sexuality to establish sustainable livelihoods.The theme produces risk-sensitive, practical approaches that can be implemented to achieve legal reform and tackle poverty among people marginalised due to their sexuality, What are the consequences of gender inequality?, http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexuality-gender-faith/women-gender-power/what-are-consequences-gender-inequality, Accessed 3/31/18ZA
To understand gender
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safety and behaviour.
Contention 2 is Empowering Workers
High-profile workplaces have long been subjecting their workers to poor working conditions. One notable example of this is Amazon warehouses.
Jack Kelly, 6-17-2021, "Amazon Prime Day Offers Great Sales—Here’s What Workers Suffer Through To Make This Happen," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/06/17/amazon-prime-day-offers-great-sales-heres-what-workers-suffer-through-to-make-this-happen/?sh=36552eff1519
Some of the other
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turned to delivery.”
Only the right to strike is critical to solving these problems and empowering workers by reversing the notions that workers can be treated less than human.
Burns 11 Burns Joe, 2011, How Working People Can Gain Power and Transform America, https://libcom.org/files/Reviving20the20Strike20-20Joe20Burns.pdf
For the traditional
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of human activity.
The impact to this is societal change. Worker recognition of the power of refusal is the starting point for political organizing – tactics combined with mass action bring capital to its knees. History proves – Bolshevik and Spanish revolutionaries came from the trade union movement and organized into revolutions.
Tronti 1966 “Workers and Capital.” Tronti, Mario. 1966. https://libcom.org/book/export/html/42233 Mario Tronti was the principal theorist of the radical political movement of the 1960s known in Italy as operaismo and in the Anglophone world as Italian workerism, a current which went on to inform the development of autonomist Marxism. His “Copernican revolution”—the proposal that working class struggles against exploitation propel capitalist development, which can only be understood as a reaction that seeks to harness this antagonism—has inspired dissident leftists around the world. Park City NL
Thus the masses
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through its State