Tournament: 1 - Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Holden Bukowsky
Pagano 14 (Ugo Pagano, Ugo Pagano is an Italian economist and Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Siena where he is also Director of the PhD programme in Economics and President of S. Chiara Graduate School, "A Crisis of Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism", November 2014)RM
Labour and intellectual monopoly capitalism According to Marx, capital is more than a physical
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country and come to own the future opportunities of firms in other countries.
Vanni 2021, Vanni, Amaka. Dr. Amaka Vanni is a legal scholar and documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work lies at the intersection of international economic law, development, and global governance. Her research and teaching are on topics of intellectual property, international trade, global health, philantrocapitalism, gender, legal theory and history, human right and the impact of colonialism on various aspect of postcolonial societies. She completed an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Politics at Keele University, UK. She holds a Masters in Law degree in International Economic Law and completed a doctorate in same field from the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis won the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law."On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism." TWAILR, 24 Mar. 2021, twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights access-to medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/.
COVID-19, Intellectual Property and Vaccine Imperialism This brings us to the present
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be able to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its growing variants
The affirmative's attempt to reform IPR only strengths and produces inequalities present in the status quo. Any reform on IPR fails, capitalist nations maintain their dominance over the market and developing nations.
Vanni 2021, Vanni, Amaka. Dr. Amaka Vanni is a legal scholar and documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work lies at the intersection of international economic law, development, and global governance. Her research and teaching are on topics of intellectual property, international trade, global health, philantrocapitalism, gender, legal theory and history, human right and the impact of colonialism on various aspect of postcolonial societies. She completed an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Politics at Keele University, UK. She holds a Masters in Law degree in International Economic Law and completed a doctorate in same field from the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis won the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law."On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism." TWAILR, 24 Mar. 2021, twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/.
These events – the corporate capture of the global pharmaceutical IP regime, state complicity
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countries in the global south, but also produces asymmetries that perpetuate inequalities.
Everyday suffering is dictated by continued structures of power that puts minorities into a continuous cycle of violence. The result is sadistic violence occurring right now— structural violence, climate change, biodiversity loss, genocide, and even economic collapse. This capitalistic crisis is not like others in history—the brink is now.
Robinson 16 — William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, Global Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, PhD in Sociology, 2016 ("Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis," Truth-Out, April 12th, Available Online at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis)//RM
In these mean streets of globalized capitalism in crisis, it has become profitable to
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just distribution of wealth and power. Our survival may depend on it.
Pagano 14 (Ugo Pagano, Ugo Pagano is an Italian economist and Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Siena where he is also Director of the PhD programme in Economics and President of S. Chiara Graduate School, "A Crisis of Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism", November 2014)RM
In the midst of the financial crisis, the Financial Times of 6 March 2009
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had just been fertilised by the ICT innovations made publicly available to all.
McLaren '4, Distinguished Fellow – Critical Studies @ Chapman U and UCLA urban schooling prof, and Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, associate professor of Communication – U Windsor, '4
(Peter and Valerie, "Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of 'difference'," Educational Philosophy and Theory Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 183-199)
For well over two decades we have witnessed the jubilant liberal and conservative pronouncements of
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memories. Its potential remains untapped and its promise needs to be redeemed.
Large-scale threats of future suffering perpetuate capitalist violence and the hegemonic power of the elite, endlessly prolonging suffering. The only response is to interrupt the system, insisting that the urgent bodies across the globe cannot wait.
Olson '15 (Elizabeth Olson, prof of geography @ UNC Chapel Hill 'Geography and Ethics I: Waiting and Urgency,' Progress in Human Geography, vol. 39 no. 4, pp. 517-526)RM
Though toileting might be thought of as a special case of bodily urgency, geographic
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as fertile ground for radical critique, a truly fierce urgency for now.