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| Newman Smith | 2 | Strake Jesuit OZ | Erick Berdugo |
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| St Marks | 2 | Westwood DL | Kristiana Baez |
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| TFA State | 2 | William P Clements SG | Jacob Lugo |
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| debateLA Challenge | 3 | Strake Jesuit KS | Vishan Chaudhary, Brendon Morris |
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| debateLA Challenge | 2 | Marlborough WR | Derek Hilligoss, Joel Lemuel |
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| debateLA Challenge | 6 | Westwood PM | Krish Patel, Aashir Sanjrani |
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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: ACCS JM | Judge: Mark Kivimaki 1AC - Dysfluency |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva 1AC - Healthcare workers |
| Harvard Westlake | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Joel Lemuel 1AC - Debris Colonialism |
| Harvard Westlake | 3 | Opponent: Brentwood AR | Judge: Christopher Perez 1AC - Cap |
| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Opponent: Westridge TW | Judge: Skye Spindler 1AC - Astrocolonialism |
| Newman Smith | 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit OZ | Judge: Erick Berdugo 1AC - Trad *counterfeit meds DA cites aren't working - all ev is in the open source doc |
| Plano West | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit BL | Judge: Fiker Tesfaye 1AC - Evergreening |
| St Marks | 2 | Opponent: Westwood DL | Judge: Kristiana Baez 1AC - Innovation |
| St Marks | 5 | Opponent: Harker MK | Judge: Skyler Harris 1AC - Pandemics |
| St Marks | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough JH | Judge: Ari Davidson 1AC - Covid |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: William P Clements SG | Judge: Jacob Lugo 1AC - Misinformation Polarization |
| debateLA Challenge | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit KS | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary, Brendon Morris 1AC - Debris |
| debateLA Challenge | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: Derek Hilligoss, Joel Lemuel 1AC - Global Commons |
| debateLA Challenge | 6 | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Krish Patel, Aashir Sanjrani 1AC - India |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: none | Round: Finals | Opponent: none | Judge: none Please let me know if you don’t have access to any articles/books I’ve got cards disclosed from and I’ll send you the full text! | 9/24/21 |
JANFEB - DA - India Primacy v1Tournament: debateLA Challenge | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit KS | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary, Brendon Morris India’s private sector is key to their space programme.Rajagopalan 20, Rajeswari. ~Dr Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan is the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSST) at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. Dr Rajagopalan was the Technical Advisor to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Prevention of Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) (July 2018-July 2019). She was also a Non-Resident Indo-Pacific Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre from April-December 2020. As a senior Asia defence writer for The Diplomat, she writes a weekly column on Asian strategic issues.~ "India’s Space Programme: A Role for the Private Sector, Finally?" Observer Research Foundation, 24 May 2020, https://www.orfonline.org/research/indias-space-programme-a-role-for-the-private-sector-finally-66661/. ~GHS-AA~ AND has undertaken promotion, commercialisation and regulatory functions – which is not healthy. India’s Space program is key to primacy and winning the space race against China.Hickert 17, Cameron. ~Cameron Hickert is a former Research Assistant at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he focused on China’s artificial intelligence initiatives, U.S.-China relations, and security issues in East Asia. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Cameron studied as a member of the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars. Previously, he was a researcher at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum and interned for the U.S. State Department in Vienna, where he provided on-site support at the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. He holds a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in international studies from the University of Denver.~ "Space Rivals: Power and Strategy in the China-India Space Race." Schwarzman Scholars, 14 Aug. 2017, https://www.schwarzmanscholars.org/events-and-news/space-rivals-power-strategy-china-india-space-race/. ~GHS-AA~ AND in a global environment, sharpen military capabilities, and improve domestic innovation. India Primacy key to US efforts to counter China RiseHeijmans, Philip, and Iain Marlow 21. ~Philip Heijmans is a journalist based in Prague. Iain Marlow is a former Asia-Pacific correspondent for The Globe and Mail. Based in Vancouver, he was responsible for covering Canada’s business ties with the booming economies of Asia, as well as important economic and political developments in the region. Iain has reported from across China, India, Southeast Asia, West Africa and the United States. He joined the Globe in early 2010 as the telecom reporter for Report on Business and in late 2011 began focusing on BlackBerry and its global rivals. In 2012, Iain’s work in Report on Business Magazine was nominated for three National Magazine Awards. His reporting on BlackBerry from Nigeria won a Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in International Features, and in 2013 he was part of a team of Globe reporters that won a National Newspaper Award in Business. Before joining The Globe, Iain studied journalism and human rights at Carleton University and earned an MSc in International Politics (Distinction) from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he studied on a Chevening Scholarship. He also founded TorontoReview.ca, an international-affairs website, and spent half of 2013 working for Journalists for Human Rights – a Canadian media development organization – in Ghana, where he also did media training for the United Nations Development Programme.~ "India to Emerge as Key Military Partner in US’ Plan to Counter China’s Rise." Business Standard, 13 Jan. 2021, https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-to-emerge-as-key-military-partner-in-us-plan-to-counter-china-s-rise-121011300370'1.html. ~GHS-AA~ AND the Indo-Pacific. It will need to do both at once." China leadership causes prolif —- empirics prove transition wars.Joshi 15, fellow at the Takshashila Institution, focusing on Indian strategic affairs and foreign policy towards Afghanistan (Rohan Joshi, 2/15/15, "China, Pakistan, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation", The Diplomat. http://thediplomat.com/2015/02/china-pakistan-and-nuclear-non-proliferation) KD AND international pressure to bring China into compliance with the commitments it has undertaken. | 1/14/22 |
JANFEB - T - Appropriation v1Tournament: debateLA Challenge | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit KS | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary, Brendon Morris Interp – "the" is a definite article that refers to one group. Affs must not specify a subset of appropriation by private entities.Rinnert et al 86, Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima City University, Paper presented at the Japan Association of Language Teachers' International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning (Teaching the English Article System, Nov 1986, Speeches/Conference Papers (150) — Reports - Descriptive (141) — Tests/Evaluation Instruments (160)) KD AND for such people. (See Appendix B, exercises 15-18.) Vote neg—1~ Limits— hundreds of types of appropriation that the aff can pick from and limitless combinations underlimits the topic and destroys neg prep since there’s no unifying DA against mining, space tourism, satellites, space col, and debris — aff gets infinite prep and sets terms for debate so DAs and PICs are inherently reactive and its absurd to say potential neg abuse justifies the aff being flat-out non-T— limits outweighs – reciprocal prep burden and allows for nuanced engagement2~ Textuality is an independent voter—it determines which interps your ballot can endorse by providing the only salient focal point for debatesDTD on T – the debate shouldn’t have happened if they were abusiveCompeting Interps on T since its binary and a question of models – Good enough isn’t good—there can be no reasonable interp of what the topic actually meansNo RVIs on T – 1~ Illogical—T is a gateway issue, winning T is meeting a baseline to have the debate to begin with 2~ T is reactionary, they shouldn’t win for meeting their preround burden 3~ Forcing the 1NC to go all in on theory kills substance education and neg flex—o/w on real world | 1/14/22 |
MARAPR - K - Cap v1Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: William P Clements SG | Judge: Jacob Lugo The capitalist regime uses the media to placate citizens as a method of state controlMcNair 09 (Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is the author of many books and essays on the relationship between journalism and politics, including Journalism and Democracy (Routledge, 2000), An Introduction to Political Communication (Routledge, 4th edition, 2007), The Sociology of Journalism (Arnold, 1998) and Cultural Chaos (Routledge, 2006).), "Journalism and Democracy", The Handbook of Journalism Studies, 1st Edition, edited by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch, Chapter 17, pg. 240-241, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203877685/handbook-journalism-studies-karin-wahl-jorgensen-thomas-hanitzsch NT AND conflict situations from a variety of perspectives, both scholarly and practitioner oriented. Objectivity is a commodity peddled by the media to perpetuate capitalist propaganda under the guise of neutrality, mooting any antagonism to the systemRyckewaert 18 (Anna Jakoba Ryckewaert is a Master of Science in Wetenschappen politics: international politics.) " MEDIA FROM A SOCIAL CHANGE PERSPECTIVE", pg. 43-47, https://libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/482/560/RUG01-002482560'2018'0001'AC.pdf NT AND undefined concepts within journalism. (Wien, 2005, p. 8). Journalistic responses to crises are seen as society having fulfilled its duty, becoming complacent and foregoing any tangible actionDean 05 (Jodi Dean teaches political theory in upstate NY where she is also actively involved in grassroots political organizing. Raised in Mississippi and Alabama, she went north for college, earning her BA at Princeton University and her MA and PhD at Columbia University. Initially, her focus was on Soviet area studies. In her second year of graduate school, she switched to political theory, which was a good thing since the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the field dissolved. Her books take up questions of solidarity, the conditions of possibility for democracy, communicative capitalism, and the necessity of building a politics that has communism as its horizon. She has given invited lectures in art and academic venues all over the world.), "COMMUNICATIVE CAPITALISM: CIRCULATION AND THE FORECLOSURE OF POLITICS", Cultural Politics, Volume 1, Issue 1, pg. 52-54, https://commonconf.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/proofs-of-tech-fetish.pdf NT AND but also apparent at and as the very frontier between open and closed. Best studies prove capitalism causes war, violence, decreased value to life, environmental destruction and extinction – it’s the greatest threat to society and is an a priori impact under any framework.Ahmed 20. ~Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film-maker, strategy and communications consultant, and change activist. The focus of Ahmed's work is to catalyse social change in the public interest by harnessing radical, systemic approaches to understanding the interconnections between the world's biggest problems, while developing and highlighting holistic strategies for social transformation. Whether it be foreign policy and terrorism, climate change and energy, or food and the economy, Nafeez deploys the techniques of critical, rigorous and interdisciplinary analysis to join the dots and challenge power, with a view to bring forth constructive change.~ June 24th, 2020. Accessed 3/3/2021. "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists//vg AND quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades. The alternative is anti-capitalist organizing via institutions – it is the only way to solve in the short and long term. It opens space for more radical transformation and is mutually exclusive with the aff in its explicit political agenda and partnership with the state.Harvey 15 (David - Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Consolidating Power," https://roarmag.org/magazine/david-harvey-consolidating-power//ghs-arc) AND . So the left will have to rethink its theoretical and tactical apparatus. The ROTJ is to break down neoliberal systems of power - Debate should be a pedagogical space in which to produce emancipatory education and nurture radical agency—our framing is a pre-requisite to ethical political engagement, necessary for anti-capitalist solidarity, and determines whether the project of the 1AC is a good idea.Giroux 20. ~Henry Armand Giroux is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. 6-19-2020. Accessed 12/30/2020. "Racist Violence Can’t Be Separated from the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism" https://socialistproject.ca/2020/06/racist-violence-neoliberal-capitalism//vg AND – the future of a radical democracy is waiting to breathe again. • | 3/11/22 |
NOVDEC - K - Afropess v DysfluencyTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: ACCS JM | Judge: Mark Kivimaki The only ethical demand available to modern politics is that of the Slave, the demand for the end of the world itself. This cry, born out of the belly of slave ships and the churning vertigo of constitutive genocide, exposes the grammar of the 1AC’s calls for larger institutional access as a fundamental fortification of White Settler and Slave Master civil society by its diversionary focus on the ethicality of the policies of global antiblack regimes as opposed to the a priori question of civil society’s very existence. The black body is the site of social death par excellence, having become dead by a 700-year injunction of the Middle Passage barring its subjectivity.Wilderson, ’10 ~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~ AND foundation of the close reading of feature films and political theory that follows. Can’t pretend that the therapeutic nature of the affirmative means that non-white identity now matters to the body politic. The archive and experiences of activists and scholars proves there is not refuge. We must sabotage such thinking within the decolonial turn in the academy.Marquez and Rana 17 AND Nieves, Andy López, and countless others whose names often go unmentioned. ABLEIST DISCOURSE IS ROOTED WITHIN THE PRIVILEGE OF WHITENESSDZODAN writer for REDLIGHTPOLITICS 2k14 Racism is defined bluntly and cogently as "an ideological ethnocentric diseased set of beliefs"A diseased set of beliefs". And then, further on, this: The alternative is to confront the terror of antiblackness. It may not speak to the particular of the aff, but blackness can confront the totality.Sexton 10 AND it no doubt would entail nothing less momentous than yet another revolution.78 The 1AC and any perm forecloses the possibility of radical questioning about the ethicality of civil society by structurally adjusting the black body through the "political action" that ceases to be "inclusive" – the aff’s starting point places the black body upon a psychologically traumatic, dielectric state of abandonment that forecloses black liberation – if we win that their scholarship produces this structural violence that is an independent reason to vote negativeWilderson ‘10 (Frank B Wilderson III- Professor at UC irvine- Red, White and Black- p. 8-10) AND occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the person who best explains the reality that produces the phenomenon of anti-blackness – if I win their starting point is flawed, they don’t get to weigh their affirmative. | 11/21/21 |
NOVDEC - K - Afropess v1Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva The only ethical demand available to modern politics is that of the Slave, the demand for the end of the world itself. The grammar of the 1AC is inadequate and parasitic on Blackness as a sentient object and distances itself from the articulation of the gratuitous violence that positions blackness as the anti-human and the structural antagonism that undergirds political life.Wilderson 10 (Frank B. Wilderson III is American writer, dramatist, filmmaker and critic. He is a full professor of Drama and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He received his BA in government and philosophy from Dartmouth College, his MA in fine arts from Columbia University and his PhD in Rhetoric and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley), Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Duke University Press, Pg. 74-78. KD AND its very nature, crowds out and forecloses the Slave’s grammar of suffering. Anti-black and colonial structures overdetermine international conceptions of care, allowing people to conflate care with violence, causing the 1AC’s inability to think of Blackness as anything ‘otherwise’ than dependent on colonial powers for care in the wake – Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic proves. Their examples of Kabul and South Africa prove colonial paternialistic motives drive the aff.Hirsch 19 (Lioba Assaba Hirsch, I am a qualitative and archival researcher with an interest in the colonial and antiblack entanglements of Western biomedicine and global health management. My research has focused on the historical development, contemporary management and colonial aftermath of British health interventions in West Africa. My PhD thesis analysed the British-led international Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the wake of British colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. I have a BA in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Paris and an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). After completing my MSc I joined the field of international development by working for GIZ, the German government's international development agency in Zambia (2014-15) on a project seeking to strengthen Zambian civil society organisations. Between late 2015 and 2019 I worked towards a PhD at UCL's Department of Geography and Institute for Global Health. I joined the Centre for History in Public Health in November 2019.), "Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014 - 15 Ebola response in the colonial wake", University College London, Department of Geography Institute for Global Health, September 2019, pg. 219-223, https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089879/1/Lioba20Hirsch20PhD20thesis.pdf NT AND due to our inability to think the present and the future otherwise.41 The medical industrial complex and biomedicine are built on colonialism and the exploitation of black bodies for experimentationWallace 20 (Gwendolyn Wallace (she/her) is a senior at Yale University pursuing a BA in the History of Science and Medicine, concentrating in Gender, Reproduction, and the Body. Her research interests include histories of community health activism, reproductive justice, and the intersections between race-making, science, and medicine. Gwendolyn enjoys working with young children, gardening, and searching for used bookstores to explore.), "To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex", Black Agenda Report, 7-8-20, https://www.blackagendareport.com/abolish-medical-industrial-complex NT AND the unwavering illness of black people that they create and re-create. The alternative is an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that poses the question of whether civil society is ethical or notWilderson 10 (Frank B. III, "Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pg. ix-x) we reject author’s use of ableist language AND , Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu. The 1AC and any perm forecloses the possibility of radical questioning about the ethicality of civil society by structurally adjusting the black body through the "political action" that ceases to be "inclusive" – the aff’s starting point places the black body upon a psychologically traumatic, dielectric state of abandonment that forecloses black liberation – if we win that their scholarship produces this structural violence that is an independent reason to vote negativeWilderson ‘10 (Frank B Wilderson III- Professor at UC irvine- Red, White and Black- p. 8-10) AND occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer. Thus, the ROB is to vote for the debater who best methodologically challenges anti-blackness. | 11/21/21 |
NOVDEC - T - Workers v1Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva Interp: The aff must defend that a just government recognizes workers in general right to strike."Workers" is a generic bare plural since there are no words modifying "workers" in the text of the topic. Generics cannot be affirmed by particular instances, and bare plurals normally express generic generalizationLeslie 16– (Sarah-Jane Leslie, Dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the University Center for Human Values, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy. She is known for her work on the cognitive underpinnings of generic generalizations); "Generic Generalizations (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics. KD AND perhaps better used than "usually" to mark off the generic reading.) Violation: They only defend healthcare workersThat exempts this list of 95 types of workers and moreIET 21, ("19 Types of Industry Sectors," Indeed Career Guide, Indeed Editorial Team, https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/types-of-industry) KD AND include: Distribution manager Supply chain specialist Traffic controller Transportation engineer Truck driver. That applies to this topic a~ Upward Entailment: "AJG ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers" doesn’t entail "AJG ought to recognize a right of all people" since all people are not inherently workers, eg. Unemployed, retirees, etcb~ Adverb of Quantification: Adding usually doesn’t produces a drastic change in meaning from the topic since aff solvency relies on recognizing all workersTextuality outweighs – determines which interps your ballot can endorse by providing the only salient focal point for debates – if their interp is not premised on the text of the resolution, its benefits are irrelevant to the question of topicality since it fails to interpret the topicNet Benefits –~1~ Limits – 95 workers plus limitless combinations and sub designations like workers makes negating impossible especially with no unifying disads against workers with entirety different negotiations – especially key for incarcerated workers which is not a designation for a worker but how they are – that’s a voting issue for extra-T since the aff can then solve every neg position – limits outweighs – aff gets infinite prep and sets terms for debate so DAs and PICs are inherently reactive and its absurd to say potential neg abuse justifies the aff being flat-out non-TDTD on T – the debate shouldn’t have happened if they were abusiveCompeting Interps on T since its binary and a question of models – Good enough isn’t good—there can be no reasonable interp of what the topic actually meansNo RVIs on T – 1~ Illogical—T is a gateway issue, winning T is meeting a baseline to have the debate to begin with 2~ T is reactionary, they shouldn’t win for meeting their preround burden 3~ Forcing the 1NC to go all in on theory kills substance education and neg flex—o/w on real world | 11/21/21 |
SEPOCT - CP - Compulsory Licensing v1Tournament: Plano West | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit BL | Judge: Fiker Tesfaye Counterplan Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to agree on specific conditions under which they could issue a compulsory license.Even the threat of compulsory licensing increases access to essential medicine for developing countriesOoms and Hanefield 19 (Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Gorik Ooms is a human rights lawyer and a global health scholar, Honorary Professor of Global Health Law and Governance at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Adjunct Professor at the Law Faculty of Georgetown University, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University. Johanna Hanefield is an Associate Professor in Health Policy and Systems Research at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.), "Threat of compulsory licences could increase access to essential medicines", BMJ 2019;365:l2098, 5-28-19, doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2098, https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2098 NT AND have the will to confront the likely political pressure is a different matter. | 10/23/21 |
SEPOCT - CP - PPP v1Tournament: Newman Smith | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit OZ | Judge: Erick Berdugo CP Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to establish public-private partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and governmental ministries.Patent waivers are insufficient to solve unequal COVID vaccine distribution – public-private partnerships boost innovation to speed up vaccination – prefer my ev, it’s comparativeRubin and Saidel 8/31/21 (Harvey Rubin M.D. Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Nicholas Saidel J.D. is the Associate Director for the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) at the University of Pennsylvania), "Innovation beyond patent waivers: Achieving global vaccination goals through public-private partnerships", Brookings Institution, Reimagining Modern-day Markets and Regulations, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/08/31/innovation-beyond-patent-waivers-achieving-global-vaccination-goals-through-public-private-partnerships/ NT AND effectively—a result that is required for global health security and equity. | 9/25/21 |
SEPOCT - DA - Counterfeit Medicines v2Tournament: Plano West | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit BL | Judge: Fiker Tesfaye Healthcare counterfeiting is on the rise, but national regulations in the status quo combat the problem for the WTO – IP is the goldilocks enabler for sustained cooperation.Author Diana Bentley in 2021, ("The insidious problem of counterfeiting in healthcare," Raconteur, https://www.raconteur.net/legal/intellectual-property/counterfeiting-healthcare/) KD AND to reporting these to WHO within seven days of discovery following WHO’s recommendations. IP is the key tool to prevent the spread of counterfeit medicines – the 1AC removes insurance measures for companies to have the necessary standards for developing high-quality medications.FIFARMA in 2021, Latin American Federation of Pharma Industry, represent 16 research-based biopharmaceutical companies and 11 local associations dedicated to discovering and developing innovative, quality and safe health products and services that improve the lives of patients in Latin America and the Caribbean and advocate for patient-centric, sustainable health systems characterized by high regulatory standards and ethical principles ("This is how we fight counterfeit medicines with Intellectual Property," https://fifarma.org/en/this-is-how-we-fight-counterfeit-medicines-with-intellectual-property/) KD AND actors will it be possible to prosecute the entire chain of counterfeit medicines. Counterfeits inflate prices for market introductions and strengthen anti-microbial resistance – that’s the key internal link to pandemicsBuckley and Gostin 13, Senior Program Officer at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Highest Academic Rank at Georgetown Law, American law professor who specializes in public health law. He was a Fulbright Fellow and is best known as the author of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act and as a significant contributor to journals on medicine and law ("The Effects of Falsified and Substandard Drugs," https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK202526/) KD AND and depends on maintaining drug quality as much as on encouraging rational use. ‘AMR is the key internal link to sustained pandemics and causes biowarfareAMR - no herd immunity - longer-lasting and stronger pandemics AND can be improved and enforced and how new ones could be developed globally. Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity. | 10/23/21 |
SEPOCT - K - Afropess v1Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood DL | Judge: Kristiana Baez The only ethical demand available to modern politics is that of the Slave, the demand for the end of the world itself. The grammar of the 1AC is inadequate and parasitic on Blackness as a sentient object and distances itself from the articulation of the gratuitous violence that positions blackness as the anti-human and the structural antagonism that undergirds political life.Wilderson 10 (Frank B. Wilderson III is American writer, dramatist, filmmaker and critic. He is a full professor of Drama and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He received his BA in government and philosophy from Dartmouth College, his MA in fine arts from Columbia University and his PhD in Rhetoric and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley), Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Duke University Press, Pg. 74-78. KD AND its very nature, crowds out and forecloses the Slave’s grammar of suffering. Anti-black and colonial structures overdetermine international conceptions of care, allowing people to conflate care with violence, causing the 1AC’s inability to think of Blackness as anything ‘otherwise’ than dependent on colonial powers for care in the wake – Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic provesHirsch 19 (Lioba Assaba Hirsch, I am a qualitative and archival researcher with an interest in the colonial and antiblack entanglements of Western biomedicine and global health management. My research has focused on the historical development, contemporary management and colonial aftermath of British health interventions in West Africa. My PhD thesis analysed the British-led international Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the wake of British colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. I have a BA in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Paris and an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). After completing my MSc I joined the field of international development by working for GIZ, the German government's international development agency in Zambia (2014-15) on a project seeking to strengthen Zambian civil society organisations. Between late 2015 and 2019 I worked towards a PhD at UCL's Department of Geography and Institute for Global Health. I joined the Centre for History in Public Health in November 2019.), "Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014 - 15 Ebola response in the colonial wake", University College London, Department of Geography Institute for Global Health, September 2019, pg. 219-223, https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089879/1/Lioba20Hirsch20PhD20thesis.pdf NT AND due to our inability to think the present and the future otherwise.41 The medical industrial complex and biomedicine are built on colonialism and the exploitation of black bodies for experimentationWallace 20 (Gwendolyn Wallace (she/her) is a senior at Yale University pursuing a BA in the History of Science and Medicine, concentrating in Gender, Reproduction, and the Body. Her research interests include histories of community health activism, reproductive justice, and the intersections between race-making, science, and medicine. Gwendolyn enjoys working with young children, gardening, and searching for used bookstores to explore.), "To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex", Black Agenda Report, 7-8-20, https://www.blackagendareport.com/abolish-medical-industrial-complex NT AND the unwavering illness of black people that they create and re-create. The concept of intellectual property is rooted in white supremacy and capitalism, with white gatekeepers being the ultimate arbiters of what is originalSherman 5/10/21 (Zoe Sherman is Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College. Her scholarly writing has appeared in Rethinking Marxism, Forum for Social Economics, and other peer reviewed publications. Her popular writing appears regularly in Dollars and Sense magazine.), Review of "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans" by Anjali Vats, Rethinking Marxism, Vol 33, No. 2, pg. 324-326, https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1893089, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935696.2021.1893089?journalCode=rrmx20 NT AND as discoveries (which then often end up as assets of transnational corporations). The alternative is an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that poses the question of whether civil society is ethical or notWilderson 10 (Frank B. III, "Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pg. ix-x) we reject author’s use of ableist language AND , Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu. The 1AC and any perm forecloses the possibility of radical questioning about the ethicality of civil society by structurally adjusting the black body through the "political action" that ceases to be "inclusive" – the aff’s starting point places the black body upon a psychologically traumatic, dielectric state of abandonment that forecloses black liberation – if we win that their scholarship produces this structural violence that is an independent reason to vote negativeWilderson ‘10 (Frank B Wilderson III- Professor at UC irvine- Red, White and Black- p. 8-10) AND occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer. Thus, the ROB is to vote for the debater who best methodologically challenges anti-blackness. | 10/16/21 |
SEPOCT - K - Cap v1Tournament: Newman Smith | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit OZ | Judge: Erick Berdugo The medical industry is colonial and biocapitalist in its structure – any attempt to reform the system misses the root causeChaudhuri et al 7/8/21 (Monica Mitra Chaudhuri, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Laura Mkumba, Science Facilitation in North Carolina, Yadurshini Raveendran, Clinical Operations, FHI Clinical Inc, Robert D Smith Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), "Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought", BMJ Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006371, https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/7/e006371.full NT AND quantified and as such metrics cannot fully lead to a process of decolonisation. Any attempt to work with the WTO ensures a revitalization of capitalism and prevents effective revolution against the state – they’ve misunderstood the root cause of their impacts.Bachand 20. Remi Bachand is Professor of International Law at the University of Quebec. "What’s Behind the WTO Crisis? A Marxist Analysis" European Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 857–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaa054//vg AND some (controversial) AB rulings concerning the implication between state and economy. Best studies prove capitalism causes war, violence, decreased value to life, environmental destruction and extinction – it’s the greatest threat to society and is an a priori impact under any framework.Ahmed 20. ~Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film-maker, strategy and communications consultant, and change activist. The focus of Ahmed's work is to catalyse social change in the public interest by harnessing radical, systemic approaches to understanding the interconnections between the world's biggest problems, while developing and highlighting holistic strategies for social transformation. Whether it be foreign policy and terrorism, climate change and energy, or food and the economy, Nafeez deploys the techniques of critical, rigorous and interdisciplinary analysis to join the dots and challenge power, with a view to bring forth constructive change.~ June 24th, 2020. Accessed 3/3/2021. "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists//vg AND quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades. The alternative is to embrace non-reformist reform and undermine the colonial, capitalist logics of global health industryChaudhuri et al 7/8/21 (Monica Mitra Chaudhuri, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Laura Mkumba, Science Facilitation in North Carolina, Yadurshini Raveendran, Clinical Operations, FHI Clinical Inc, Robert D Smith Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), "Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought", BMJ Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006371, https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/7/e006371.full NT AND industry at all—perhaps this could be the ‘moment’ of departure. The ROTJ is to break down neoliberal systems of power. Debate should be a pedagogical space in which to produce emancipatory education and nurture radical agency—our framing is a pre-requisite to ethical political engagement, necessary for anti-capitalist solidarity, and determines whether the project of the 1AC is a good idea.Giroux 20. ~Henry Armand Giroux is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. 6-19-2020. Accessed 12/30/2020. "Racist Violence Can’t Be Separated from the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism" https://socialistproject.ca/2020/06/racist-violence-neoliberal-capitalism//vg AND – the future of a radical democracy is waiting to breathe again. • | 9/25/21 |
SEPOCT - K - Cap v2Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough JH | Judge: Ari Davidson The medical industry is colonial and biocapitalist in its structure – any attempt to reform the system misses the root causeChaudhuri et al 7/8/21 (Monica Mitra Chaudhuri, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Laura Mkumba, Science Facilitation in North Carolina, Yadurshini Raveendran, Clinical Operations, FHI Clinical Inc, Robert D Smith Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), "Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought", BMJ Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006371, https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/7/e006371.full NT AND quantified and as such metrics cannot fully lead to a process of decolonisation. Any attempt to work with the WTO ensures a revitalization of capitalism and prevents effective revolution against the state – they’ve misunderstood the root cause of their impacts.Bachand 20. Remi Bachand is Professor of International Law at the University of Quebec. "What’s Behind the WTO Crisis? A Marxist Analysis" European Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Issue 3, August 2020, Pages 857–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaa054//vg AND some (controversial) AB rulings concerning the implication between state and economy. The problem isn’t with protections, but with intellectual property protection itself– IPP changes science into a mode of production and ensures the continuation of neolib.Drahos nd "A philosophy of intellectual property" http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n1902/html/imprint.xhtml?referer=andpage=2~~#//vg AND is itself symbolic of the fact that scientific labour has become alienated labour. Best studies prove capitalism causes war, violence, decreased value to life, environmental destruction and extinction – it’s the greatest threat to society and is an a priori impact under any framework.Ahmed 20. ~Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film-maker, strategy and communications consultant, and change activist. The focus of Ahmed's work is to catalyse social change in the public interest by harnessing radical, systemic approaches to understanding the interconnections between the world's biggest problems, while developing and highlighting holistic strategies for social transformation. Whether it be foreign policy and terrorism, climate change and energy, or food and the economy, Nafeez deploys the techniques of critical, rigorous and interdisciplinary analysis to join the dots and challenge power, with a view to bring forth constructive change.~ June 24th, 2020. Accessed 3/3/2021. "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists//vg AND quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades. The alternative is to embrace non-reformist reform and undermine the colonial, capitalist logics of global health industryChaudhuri et al 7/8/21 (Monica Mitra Chaudhuri, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Laura Mkumba, Science Facilitation in North Carolina, Yadurshini Raveendran, Clinical Operations, FHI Clinical Inc, Robert D Smith Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), "Decolonising global health: beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought", BMJ Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006371, https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/7/e006371.full NT AND industry at all—perhaps this could be the ‘moment’ of departure. The ROTJ is to break down neoliberal systems of power. Debate should be a pedagogical space in which to produce emancipatory education and nurture radical agency—our framing is a pre-requisite to ethical political engagement, necessary for anti-capitalist solidarity, and determines whether the project of the 1AC is a good idea. | 10/17/21 |
SEPOCT - T - Medicines vs Vaccines v1Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough JH | Judge: Ari Davidson Interp – Medicines treat diseases. The aff must defend a reduction of IP protections for medicines.NLM ND, (US National Library of Medicine, "Medicines: MedlinePlus," https://medlineplus.gov/medicines.html) KD AND your prescription and over-the-counter medicines are safe and effective. Violation –Vaccines are not medicines; they are medical injections for future infectionsElbe 10, Stefan, Director of Centre for Global Health Policy, prof IR at the University of Sussex (May 3, 2010, "Security and Global Health: Towards the Medicalization of Insecurity," pg.28) KD AND security to be practised through the introduction of new medica interventions in society. Net Benefits –Expanding the meaning of medicines lets them read plans about tons of medical inventions– CRISPR, vaccines, cannabis, all medical lab equipment, chemo, meditation, and many others—to which there are no unifying DAs. Two impacts – AND that means they get plenty of affs and education about the medical arena. DTD on T – the debate shouldn’t have happened if they were abusiveCompeting Interps on T since its binary and a question of models – Good enough isn’t good—there can be no reasonable interp of what the topic actually meansNo RVIs on T – 1~ Illogical—T is a gateway issue, winning T is meeting a baseline to have the debate to begin with 2~ T is reactionary, they shouldn’t win for meeting their preround burden 3~ Forcing the 1NC to go all in on theory kills substance education and neg flex—o/w on real world | 10/17/21 |
SEPOCT - T - Reduce is Permanent v1Tournament: St Marks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker MK | Judge: Skyler Harris Interp – Reduce means permanent reduction – it’s distinct from temporary suspensions.Reynolds, 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959) AND or degrade. The word "reduce" seems adequately to indicate permanency. Violation – the plan waives intellectual property protections temporarily, which is an indefinite suspension. 1AC plan text says that it only waives ip protections during public health emergenciesNet Benefits –~1~ Limits – Their interpretation turns every single possible combo of IPR into an aff—they can read affs about different types of patents, DE, ME including utility, design, and plant, biological exclusivity, orphan drug exclusivity, Clinical Investigation exclusivity, Qualified Infectious Disease Product, and new chemical entitiesThat massively expands aff ground and makes it impossible for the neg to predict and prep for every aff – means no unified neg generics because you can’t read any DA against a partial reduction aff since they keep some IPP in place to solve neg internal links— makes effective neg prep on a big topic completely impossible.Limits is a VI for fairness—they let the neg generate good prep, and forces in-depth debatesDTD on T – the debate shouldn’t have happened if they were abusiveCompeting Interps on T since its binary and a question of models – Good enough isn’t good—there can be no reasonable interp of what the topic actually meansNo RVIs on T – 1~ Illogical—T is a gateway issue, winning T is meeting a baseline to have the debate to begin with 2~ T is reactionary, they shouldn’t win for meeting their preround burden | 10/17/21 |
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