1AC - US Aff 1NC - Politics DA BizCon DA Trade DA Nebel T 1AR - 2NR - BizCon DA 2AR -
WTO - Heart of Texas Invitational St Marx
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Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Gerard Grigsby
1AC - COVID Aff 1NC - T Meds T Whole Rez Climate Innovation DA Science Diplomacy CP Infrastructure DA 1AR - 2NR - Went for Infrastructure DA 2AR - Went for Adv 2 and 3
WTO - Heart of Texas Invitational St Marx
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Opponent: Westwood DL | Judge: Davd Salazar
1AC - COVID Aff 1NC - T Meds Vaxx fear DA Innovation DA 1AR - Innovation DA straight turn 2NR - Vaxx fear Innovation 2AR -
WTO - Heart of Texas Invitational St Marx
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Opponent: Marlborough TZ | Judge: Nick Fleming
1AC - COVID Aff 1NC - COVID Funding CP China PIC Compulsory Licensing CP Innovation DA 1AR - 2NR - COVID Funding Innovation DA 2AR -
WTO - Loyola Invitational
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Opponent: St Croix Prep AD | Judge: Donny Peters
1AC COVID Aff 1NC US Heg CP Health Diplomacy DA Innovation DA 1AR responses 2NR Went for US Heg CP and Innovation DA 2AR Went for case CP ( responses)
WTO - Loyola Invitational
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Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Neville Tom
1AC - COVID Aff 1NC - Literally 10-off tricks not going to list them here see Shreyas's open source 1AR - A lot of stuff Turn on language trick 2NR - Extended everything but went for Kant NC 2AR - Went for turn on language trick
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Names of topics: WTO = Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines. R2S = Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike. PS = Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
all our ambassadors to the table to negotiate a text," she said.
2. The WTO dampens US-China great power conflict which is crucial to solve a laundry list of existential threats. Cooperation on global vaccine distribution is a vital test case
Shaffer, JD Stanford, 21 (Gregory Shaffer is Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the forthcoming book, "Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law." https://thehill.com/opinion/international/559049-the-us-must-engage-with-china-even-when-countering-china, 6-21) A policy statement heard around the world is that U.S. engagement with
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outcomes, such as to provide vaccines globally and to develop green technologies.
3. The WTO reduces war through peace dividends, interdependence, and rule of law
Baldwin, PhD, and Nakotomi 15 (Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Michitaka, Consulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and a Special Adviser to the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy'insights/PolicyInsight84.pdf, July) The WTO, and the GATT before it, has been one the planet’s precious
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only – example of a multilateral and nearuniversal framework of rules and law.
4. The WTO is crucial to make global trade equitable and reduce poverty
Narlikar, PhD, 18 (AMRITA NARLIKAR is President of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and a professor at the University of Hamburg. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-03-05/trade-war-poor, 3-5) Recurrent deadlocks have plagued the Doha negotiations since their launch in 2001, damaging the
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lose for all, but particularly the poorest in developed and rising powers.
12/12/21
PS - Peninsula R6 - C1 The Space Industrial Complex
would allow venture capitalists to stake their claim in a new space scramble.
Risks of private space activity vastly outweigh- government space programs are regulated and equitable. Private space risks handing a megalomaniac their own death star
of billionaires leaving the atmosphere are all cover for the real space economy.
Capitalism is the root cause of warming
Schutz 19 (Professor of Economics at Rollins College from 1987-2015, and author of Markets and Power: The Twentieth Century Command Economy and Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class, as well as articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, the Forum for Social Economics, the Journal of Economic Issues, and the Encyclopedia of Political Economy. Eric A., "Planetary Eco-Collapse and Capitalism: A Contemporary Marxist Perspective," Forum for Social Economics, Vol. 49, Issue 3, Taylor and Francis Online) gordon Of course, anything like the revolution needed appears pretty unlikely from the vantage point
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may well resound loudly as among the guiding ideas of the coming struggles.
Capitalism causes extinction through environmental degradation. Rejecting market fundamentalism is crucial to avoid total expenditure of finite resources
We defend the resolution: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust
To clarify, we perform a moral calculus about whether private appropriation is just or not
Capitalist futurism makes it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. We don’t need a revolutionary break, we need a progressive series of steps that redefine political economy and space is a crucial starting point. The end of capitalism isn’t possible, it’s necessary
Robinson and O’Keefe 20 (ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including New York 2140, Red Moon, and the Mars trilogy. ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER Derrick O’Keefe is a cofounder and editor of Ricochet Media and is the author of Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil? and A Woman Among Warlords, coauthored with Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya. Derrick is a longtime political organizer in Vancouver, BC. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction, 10-22) DOK I wanted to ask you about the now-famous quote attributed to Jameson
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, "space science is Earth science," and I totally believe that.
Beware the space industrial complex- it’s only purpose is to bring unequal relations to the stars – futurism should be viewed with "extreme skepticism"
the global economy. Must we let them own the solar system too?
There is no such thing as "space philanthropy"- private actors are interested in self promotion, not saving humanity. Their efforts directly gut government programs to allow market capture
Vote aff to prioritize the slow violence and everyday war against disenfranchised populations. You are conditioned to discount structural violence because it occurs outside of traditional risk frames, which normalizes state-sanctioned violence.
Hunt 18 (Dallas Hunt, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada., Chapter 10 "Of course they count, but not right now": Regulating precarity in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song, in Biopolitical Disaster Edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe, 2018 Routledge, JKS) "There is a hierarchy to care": theoretical concerns and applications In Frames
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her work gestures toward the alternatives that might be offered by Indigenous frames.
Prioritizing flashpoint conflicts and crises is a privileged form of impact calculus. Slow violence is rendered invisible under traditional moral frameworks because it happens at the level of the everyday.
Ahmann 18 (Ahmann, Chloe. ""It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing": Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time." Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (2018): 142–171. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca33.1.06, JKS) Anthropologists have long been concerned with the experience of crisis as a moment of heightened
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overt objects of contestation among historically disenfranchised groups (see also Liboiron 2015).
. No matter the language or location, capitalism makes us all desperate.
2. Income inequality undermines democracy making action on existential problems like climate change impossible- it’s the biggest global risk and the US is the worst example
"That would be a real shot in the arm," Milkman said.
4. The right to strike is crucial to stop decline of labor unions, the vital internal link to economic inequality
Pope et al. 17 (James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University.Ed Bruno is the former director of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Peter Kellman is past president of the Southern Maine Labor Council and is currently working with the Movement Building/Education Committee of the Maine AFL-CIO https://bostonreview.net/forum/james-gray-pope-ed-bruno-peter-kellman-right-strike , 5-22) In December 2005 more than 30,000 New York City transit workers walked out
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and confront the deep structural disabilities that impede unions from challenging corporate power.
5. Statistically economic inequality outweighs war
Richter, PhD/EMT, 15 (Roxane, Disaster Types and their Consequences for Women in Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrant’s Emergency Health Care) As we see above in Galtung’s "Typology of Violence" from 1969 (Table
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are set aside" (2012, 21). (24-5)
6. Economic inequality causes US civil war—this card answers every 1NC response
. No matter the language or location, capitalism makes us all desperate.
2. Income inequality undermines democracy making action on existential problems like climate change impossible- it’s the biggest global risk and the US is the worst example
"That would be a real shot in the arm," Milkman said.
4. The right to strike is crucial to stop decline of labor unions, the vital internal link to economic inequality
Pope et al. 17 (James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University.Ed Bruno is the former director of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Peter Kellman is past president of the Southern Maine Labor Council and is currently working with the Movement Building/Education Committee of the Maine AFL-CIO https://bostonreview.net/forum/james-gray-pope-ed-bruno-peter-kellman-right-strike , 5-22) In December 2005 more than 30,000 New York City transit workers walked out
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and confront the deep structural disabilities that impede unions from challenging corporate power.
5. Statistically economic inequality outweighs war
Richter, PhD/EMT, 15 (Roxane, Disaster Types and their Consequences for Women in Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrant’s Emergency Health Care) As we see above in Galtung’s "Typology of Violence" from 1969 (Table
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are set aside" (2012, 21). (24-5)
6. Economic inequality causes US civil war—this card answers every 1NC response
1. The right to strike is a political statement that rejects the commodification of human labor—this is the vital internal link
Burns , JD, 11 (Joe, veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America) For the traditional labor movement, the notion that human beings were like objects,
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of the idea that the market should govern every sphere of human activity.
2. Alternatives short of the right to strike fail—only withholding labor can grind capitalism to a halt
is in order for unions to take advantage of the situation right now."
4. Other protections aren’t worth the paper they are printed on- only the right to strike can empower the labor movement
Pope et al. 17 (James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University.Ed Bruno is the former director of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Peter Kellman is past president of the Southern Maine Labor Council and is currently working with the Movement Building/Education Committee of the Maine AFL-CIO https://bostonreview.net/forum/james-gray-pope-ed-bruno-peter-kellman-right-strike , 5-22) As Lerner diagnosed twenty years ago, U.S. labor law blocks unions
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strike, sometimes in support of open lawbreaking by leftist unions and workers.
5. Be very skeptical of negative evidence- employers have launched a propaganda war to blame Biden and workers for economic problems. Ideological data is laundered through allegedly neutral sources
Skolnik 21 (Jon Skolnik is a staff writer at Salon. His work has appeared in Current Affairs, The Baffler, AlterNet, and The New York Daily News. https://www.salon.com/2021/05/19/how-the-business-lobby-created-the-labor-shortage-myth—and-gop-used-it-to-slash-benefits/, 5-19) Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar
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try and create a national narrative that Biden is holding back the recovery."
1. The right to strike is a political statement that rejects the commodification of human labor—this is the vital internal link
Burns , JD, 11 (Joe, veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America) For the traditional labor movement, the notion that human beings were like objects,
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of the idea that the market should govern every sphere of human activity.
2. Alternatives short of the right to strike fail—only withholding labor can grind capitalism to a halt
is in order for unions to take advantage of the situation right now."
4. Other protections aren’t worth the paper they are printed on- only the right to strike can empower the labor movement
Pope et al. 17 (James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University.Ed Bruno is the former director of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Peter Kellman is past president of the Southern Maine Labor Council and is currently working with the Movement Building/Education Committee of the Maine AFL-CIO https://bostonreview.net/forum/james-gray-pope-ed-bruno-peter-kellman-right-strike , 5-22) As Lerner diagnosed twenty years ago, U.S. labor law blocks unions
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strike, sometimes in support of open lawbreaking by leftist unions and workers.
5. Be very skeptical of negative evidence- employers have launched a propaganda war to blame Biden and workers for economic problems. Ideological data is laundered through allegedly neutral sources
Skolnik 21 (Jon Skolnik is a staff writer at Salon. His work has appeared in Current Affairs, The Baffler, AlterNet, and The New York Daily News. https://www.salon.com/2021/05/19/how-the-business-lobby-created-the-labor-shortage-myth—and-gop-used-it-to-slash-benefits/, 5-19) Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar
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try and create a national narrative that Biden is holding back the recovery."
Neoliberal capitalism will produce extinction – the system reproduces crises that depoliticize the left, undermine futural thought, and postpone its demise – the impacts are environmental collapse, endless war, and the rise of fascism
Shaviro 15 (Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981. "No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism" https://track5.mixtape.moe/qdkkdt.pdf rVs) The problem may be summarized as follows. Capitalism has indeed created the conditions for
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easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
Neoliberal capitalism will produce extinction – the system reproduces crises that depoliticize the left, undermine futural thought, and postpone its demise – the impacts are environmental collapse, endless war, and the rise of fascism
Shaviro 15 (Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981. "No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism" https://track5.mixtape.moe/qdkkdt.pdf rVs) The problem may be summarized as follows. Capitalism has indeed created the conditions for
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easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."