Orange Lutheran Zhang Aff
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| Barkley Forum | 2 | Denton Guyer SB | Will Hobson |
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| Barkley Forum | 3 | Prospect ST | Parth Misra |
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| Barkley Forum | Triples | Immaculate Heart BC | Jasmine Stidham, Bennet Dombcik, Chris Theis |
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| Berkeley | 2 | La Canada LL | Ashley Nguyen |
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| Berkeley | 3 | Harvard Westlake AW | Calvin Tyler |
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| Berkeley | 6 | Denver East LF | Jason Yang |
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| Berkeley | Triples | Westwood EG | Nikki Aqui, Bennet Dombcik, Colton Gilbert |
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| Berkeley | Doubles | Honor VD | Danielle Dosch, Colton Gilbert, Amy Santos |
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| Berkeley | Octas | Strath Haven AM | David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi, Vishvak Bandi |
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| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Peninsula AJ | Eric Deng |
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| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Saratoga AG | Nick Fleming |
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| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Strake KS | Alexandra Mork |
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| Harvard Westlake | Doubles | Harker RT | Vanessa Nguyen, Tim Alderete, Chris Theis |
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| Jack Howe | 2 | Marlborough MS | Saketh Kotapati |
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| Jack Howe | 3 | Yerba Buena KN | Asher Towner |
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| Jack Howe | 5 | Nashua HS South EG | Valorie Lam |
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| Loyola | 1 | Harvard Westlake EJ | Lena Mizrahi |
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| Loyola | 3 | Immaculate Heart JL | Asher Towner |
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| Loyola | 5 | Peninsula RM | Valorie Lam |
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| Loyola | Doubles | Strake JS | Lena Mizrahi, Sreyaas Das, Tej Gedela |
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| Meadows | 2 | Ardsley KK | Alex Baez |
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| Meadows | 3 | Westlake MR | Rafael Sanchez |
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| Meadows | 5 | Ayala AM | Donald Fagan |
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| Meadows | Quarters | San Mateo YR | David Dosch, Kabir Dubey, Ben Cortez |
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| Meadows | Semis | Immaculate Heart JL | Alex Baez, Diana Alvarez, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez |
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| Meadows | Finals | Sage MP | Lena Mizrahi, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez, Alex Baez |
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| Orange Lutheran Invitational | Finals | Rhys Moon | Beatrice Culligan |
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| Orange Lutheran Invitational | Semis | All Are Allowed | Simply Improve |
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| Peninsula | 1 | Marlborough ZG | Madeleine Conrad-Mogin |
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| Peninsula | 3 | Northern Valley HS JS | Truman Le |
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| Peninsula | 6 | Ayala AM | David Dosch |
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| Barkley Forum | 2 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Will Hobson (lay round) |
| Barkley Forum | 3 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Parth Misra 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 |
| Barkley Forum | Triples | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Jasmine Stidham, Bennet Dombcik, Chris Theis 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v3 |
| Berkeley | 2 | Opponent: La Canada LL | Judge: Ashley Nguyen 1ac - cosmic v3 didn't read 2nd adv |
| Berkeley | 3 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Calvin Tyler 1ac - cosmic v3 |
| Berkeley | 6 | Opponent: Denver East LF | Judge: Jason Yang 1ac - cosmic v3 without bostrom |
| Berkeley | Triples | Opponent: Westwood EG | Judge: Nikki Aqui, Bennet Dombcik, Colton Gilbert 1ac - cosmic v3 |
| Berkeley | Doubles | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Danielle Dosch, Colton Gilbert, Amy Santos 1ac - cosmic v3 without the pp card |
| Berkeley | Octas | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi, Vishvak Bandi 1ac - cosmic v3 |
| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AJ | Judge: Eric Deng 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism |
| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Nick Fleming 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Strake KS | Judge: Alexandra Mork 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 |
| Harvard Westlake | Doubles | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen, Tim Alderete, Chris Theis 1ac - Cosmic Quarry Colonialism v2 (didn't read adv 3) |
| Jack Howe | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Saketh Kotapati 1ac - vaccine imperialism v2 |
| Jack Howe | 3 | Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Asher Towner 1ac - Vaccine imperialism v2 |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Nashua HS South EG | Judge: Valorie Lam 1ac - vaccine imperialism v2 |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake EJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Loyola | 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Asher Towner 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Valorie Lam 1ac- vaccine imperialism |
| Loyola | Doubles | Opponent: Strake JS | Judge: Lena Mizrahi, Sreyaas Das, Tej Gedela 1ac - vaccine imperialism v2 |
| Meadows | 2 | Opponent: Ardsley KK | Judge: Alex Baez 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Meadows | 3 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Rafael Sanchez 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Meadows | 5 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Donald Fagan 1ac - vaccine impeiralism |
| Meadows | Quarters | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: David Dosch, Kabir Dubey, Ben Cortez 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Meadows | Semis | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Alex Baez, Diana Alvarez, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez 1ac - vaccine imperialism |
| Meadows | Finals | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Lena Mizrahi, Stephanie LeClaire-Vasquez, Alex Baez 1ac - vacc imp |
| Peninsula | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Madeleine Conrad-Mogin 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 (didn't read adv 2) |
| Peninsula | 3 | Opponent: Northern Valley HS JS | Judge: Truman Le 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 (didn't read adv 1) |
| Peninsula | 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: David Dosch 1ac - cosmic quarry colonialism v2 |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Orange Lutheran Invitational | Round: Finals | Opponent: Rhys Moon | Judge: Beatrice Culligan The best way to contact me is through FB/Phone so try that before email. If you want any disclosure interps met just let me know. Phone: (626)-205-5999 | 8/3/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: Orange Lutheran Invitational | Round: Semis | Opponent: All Are Allowed | Judge: Simply Improve | 8/3/21 |
1 - AFF - Vaccine ImperialismTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake EJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi AFF – Vaccine Imperialism1AC1AC – FramingPrioritize probability.Kessler 08 (Oliver; April 2008; PhD in IR, professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, and professor of history and theory of IR at the Faculty of Arts; Alternatives, Vol. 33, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics" p. 211-232) Structural violence is the most important impact – ignoring them actively exacerbates exclusionWinter and Leighton 99 |Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5 Particularity is the best standardPrice 98 ~(RICHARD PRICE is a former prof in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Later, he moved to Johns Hopkins University to found the Department of Anthropology, where he served three terms as chair. A decade of freelance teaching (University of Minnesota, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Florida, Universidade Federal da Bahia), ensued. This article is co-authored with CHRISTIAN REUS-SMIT – Monash University – European Journal of International Relations Copyright © 1998 via SAGE Publications – http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~~courses/PoliticalScience/661B1/documents/PriceReusSmithCriticalInternatlTheoryConstructivism.pdf)~~ Externally, the specific role of debate means you should vote for the debater who identifies the best strategy for resisting racist oppression.Medina 11 Medina, J. (2011). Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism. Foucault Studies, 1(12), 9–35. Racism is the biggest impact – it makes all violence structurally inevitable and is the basis for all morality. Memmi 2kAlbert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165 Large scale extinction impacts are impossible to predict or simulate and will almost always be wrong – prefer impacts we know are happeningMatheson 15 (Calum Matheson – This is his PhD dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Desired Ground Zeros: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive", https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:4bbcb13b-0b5f-43a1-884c-fcd6e6411fd6, pgs. 77 – 86, EmmieeM) 1AC – AdvantageThe status quo ensures vaccine imperialism. Intellectual property law is the lynchpin of North-South health inequality and has empirically resulted in disparate life outcomes, accelerating disease spread.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian The TRIPS IP regime is at the heart of that imbalance. It creates a privileged class of elites with access to medicine and locks in data exclusivity and evergreening practices that delay the entrance of generic medicines into the market, which would decrease prices.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian Vaccine imperialism inevitably commodifies medicine and results in vaccine nationalism that magnifies North-South health disparities.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 2-4) julian Status quo distribution results in disparities between nations. That results in colonial hierarchies of health.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4) julian It also results in inequalities within nations. Politicians create a hierarchy of access, which feeds racism, classism, and corruption.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa; Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4-5) julian This means COVID and future pandemics will reproduce untenable working conditions and racialized and classed life outcomes.Sell 20 – Susan K. Sell is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. ("What COVID 19 Reveals About Twenty First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity," pg. 152-153) julian The plan reverse casually ensures the reduction of vaccine imperialism.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian 1AC – PlanPlan: The member of nations of the World Trade Organization ought to eliminate patent protections for medicinesAdler 21 – Paul Adler is assistant professor of 20th Century U.S. in the World History at Colorado College and author of "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality," with University of Pennsylvania Press. ("Activism is the key to getting vaccines to the world," 4-23-2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/23/activism-is-key-getting-vaccines-world/) julian Prioritize our impacts. Intellectual monopoly capitalism prioritizes profitability over health, which blurs the lines between life and death.Sell 20 – Susan K. Sell is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. ("What COVID 19 Reveals About Twenty First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity," pg. 151-152) julian Status quo medical innovation results in inequality, which the aff corrects.Parthasarathy 20 – Shobita Parthasarathy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at University of Michigan. ("Innovation Policy, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19," 2020, pg. 105-107) julian Flexibilities are insufficient.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4) julian | 9/4/21 |
1 - AFF - Vaccine Imperialism v2Tournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Strake JS | Judge: Lena Mizrahi, Sreyaas Das, Tej Gedela AFF – Vaccine Imperialism1AC1AC – FramingConsequences are morally relevantPrefer for actor specificityA~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.B~ Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. People consistently regard pleasure and pain as good reasons for action, despite the fact that pleasure doesn’t seem to be instrumentally valuable for anything.Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first.Prioritize probability.Kessler 08 (Oliver; April 2008; PhD in IR, professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, and professor of history and theory of IR at the Faculty of Arts; Alternatives, Vol. 33, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics" p. 211-232) Structural violence is the most important impact – ignoring them actively exacerbates exclusionWinter and Leighton 99 |Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5 Externally, the specific role of debate means you should vote for the debater who identifies the best strategy for resisting racist oppression.Medina 11 Medina, J. (2011). Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism. Foucault Studies, 1(12), 9–35. Racism is the biggest impact – it makes all violence structurally inevitable and is the basis for all morality. Memmi 2kAlbert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165 Large scale extinction impacts are impossible to predict or simulate and will almost always be wrong – prefer impacts we know are happeningMatheson 15 (Calum Matheson – This is his PhD dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Desired Ground Zeros: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive", https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:4bbcb13b-0b5f-43a1-884c-fcd6e6411fd6, pgs. 77 – 86, EmmieeM) 1AC – AdvantageThe status quo ensures vaccine imperialism. Intellectual property law is the lynchpin of North-South health inequality and has empirically resulted in disparate life outcomes, accelerating disease spread.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian The TRIPS IP regime is at the heart of that imbalance. It creates a privileged class of elites with access to medicine and locks in data exclusivity and evergreening practices that delay the entrance of generic medicines into the market, which would decrease prices.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian Vaccine imperialism inevitably commodifies medicine and results in vaccine nationalism that magnifies North-South health disparities.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 2-4) julian Status quo distribution results in disparities between nations. That results in colonial hierarchies of health.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4) julian It also results in inequalities within nations. Politicians create a hierarchy of access, which feeds racism, classism, and corruption.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa; Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4-5) julian This means COVID and future pandemics will reproduce untenable working conditions and racialized and classed life outcomes.Sell 20 – Susan K. Sell is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. ("What COVID 19 Reveals About Twenty First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity," pg. 152-153) julian The plan reverse casually ensures the reduction of vaccine imperialism.Vanni 21 – Dr. Amaka Vanni is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. ("On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," 3-23-2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/) julian 1AC – PlanPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to eliminate patent protections for medicinesAdler 21 – Paul Adler is assistant professor of 20th Century U.S. in the World History at Colorado College and author of "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality," with University of Pennsylvania Press. ("Activism is the key to getting vaccines to the world," 4-23-2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/23/activism-is-key-getting-vaccines-world/) julian Prioritize our impacts. Intellectual monopoly capitalism prioritizes profitability over health, which blurs the lines between life and death.Sell 20 – Susan K. Sell is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. ("What COVID 19 Reveals About Twenty First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity," pg. 151-152) julian Status quo medical innovation results in inequality, which the aff corrects.Parthasarathy 20 – Shobita Parthasarathy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at University of Michigan. ("Innovation Policy, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19," 2020, pg. 105-107) julian Flexibilities are insufficient.Seklala et al 21 – Sharifah Sekalala, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa,;Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda; Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA ("Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, pg. 4) julian | 9/6/21 |
3 - AFF - Cosmic Quarry ColonialismTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AJ | Judge: Eric Deng AFF – Cosmic Quarry Colonialism1AC1AC – FramingExtinction first —- moral uncertainty.Bostrom 12 ~(Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford) "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy, 2012~~ TDI Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ TDI Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being – prefer:1~~ Actor specificity – Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.2~~ No act-omission distinction—governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is implicit authorization of action: they have to yes/no bills, which means everything collapse to aggregation.1AC – Cosmic ColonialismAdvantage 1 is Cosmic Colonialism.Private appropriation of outer space expands corporate colonialism.Shammas and Holen 19 ~~~(Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 3-5~ TDI NewSpace actors engage in historical revisionism that moralistically justifies endless accumulation by displacing neoliberal guilt.Johnson ‘20 (Johnson, Matthew Robert. "Mining the high frontier: sovereignty, property and humankind’s common heritage in outer space." PhD diss., University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2020-08-26; JPark) NewSpace valorizes private property, advances American exceptionalism, and uses the frontier to greenlight exploitation, colonialism, and violence.Johnson ‘20 (Johnson, Matthew Robert. "Mining the high frontier: sovereignty, property and humankind’s common heritage in outer space." PhD diss., University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2020-08-26; JPark) ~Bolded Brackets~~ inserted for footnote clarity The insistence on outer space as corporate capital’s spatial fix accelerates environmental degradation.Shammas and Holen 19 (Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 6-8~ julian Environmental degradation causes extinction.Dr. Peter Kareiva 18, Ph.D. in Ecology and Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al., September 2018, "Existential Risk Due To Ecosystem Collapse: Nature Strikes Back", Futures, Volume 102, p. 39-50 Our internal link is reverse causal. The "spatial fix" ensures infinite environmental destruction.Shammas and Holen 19 ~(Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space," 1-29-2019, pg. 5-6~~~ julian Corporate colonialism concentrates society around collective effervescence, which effaces safeguards to capital’s negative externalities.Shammas and Holen 19 ~Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "Capitalism and Outer Space: Replies to an Interlocutor" Dr. Victor Lund Shammas Blog, https://www.victorshammas.com/blog/2019/12/17/capitalism-and-outer-space, 12/18/2019~ RM Corporate colonialism necessitates mass launch.Shammas and Holen 19 ~~~Victor L, a sociologist working at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo; Tomas B., independent scholar in Oslo, Norway) "Capitalism and Outer Space: Replies to an Interlocutor" Dr. Victor Lund Shammas Blog, https://www.victorshammas.com/blog/2019/12/17/capitalism-and-outer-space, 12/18/2019~ RM That depletes the ozone layer, open the floodgates for existential UV floods, and leaves residual black carbon.Grush 17 ~~~~Loren Grush, Loren Grush is a science reporter for The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media, where she specializes in all things space—from distant stars and planets to human space flight and the commercial space race. The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists—literally. She is also the host of Space Craft, an original online video series that examines what it takes to send people to space. Before joining The Verge, Loren published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Nautilus Magazine, Digital Trends, Fox News, and ABC News.) "Why it’s time to study how rocket emissions change the atmosphere: Get the data now before the problem gets worse" The Verge, May 31, 2018~~~~ RM ====Ozone collapse causes extinction.==== UV floods cause extinction—no defense assumes rampant UV poisoning.Lucas et al 14 (R. M. Lucas (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth 6008, Australia), M. Norval (Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, UK), R. E. Neale (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane 4029, Australia), A. R. Young (King's College London (KCL), St John's Institute of Dermatology, London SE1 9RT, UK), F. R. de Gruijl (Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, NL-2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands), Y. (Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita-shi, Akita Prefecture, Japan, National Institute for Minamata Diseases, Minamata-sh, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan) and J. C. van der Leun (iEcofys, Kanaalweg 16G, NL-3526 KL Utrecht, The Netherlands), "The consequences for human health of stratospheric ozone depletion in association with other environmental factors", November 10 ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~^, 2014, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/pp/c4pp90033b) CS That causes viruses to human bacterial genome to damage will ensure the next pandemic is existentialSupriya 4/19 ~Lakshmi Supriya got her BSc in Industrial Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur (India) and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech (USA). She has more than a decade of global industry experience working in the USA, Europe, and India. After her Ph.D., she worked as part of the RandD group in diverse industries starting with semiconductor packaging at Intel, Arizona, where she developed a new elastomeric thermal solution, which has now been commercialized and is used in the core i3 and i5 processors. From there she went on to work at two startups, one managing the microfluidics chip manufacturing lab at a biotechnology company and the other developing polymer formulations for oil extraction from oil sands. She also worked at Saint Gobain North America, developing various material solutions for photovoltaics and processing techniques and new applications for fluoropolymers. Most recently, she managed the Indian RandD team of Enthone (now part of MacDermid) developing electroplating technologies for precious metals.) "Humans versus viruses - Can we avoid extinction in near future?" News Medical Life Sciences, 4/19/21, https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210419/Humans-versus-viruses-Can-we-avoid-extinction-in-near-future.aspx~~~~ RM 1AC – Celestial ProliferationAdvantage 2 is Celestial ProliferationDeep space exploration is a shared goal that prevents escalation of US-Russia tensions. But privatization threatens it independent of our other internal linksCSIS 18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Center for Strategic and International Studies), "Why Human Space Exploration Matters," August 21, 2018 https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/space-cooperation~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI It’s make or break for the relationship—Ukraine, decline of US moral authority on international affairs puts us at the brink of the end of Russian diplomacy and even warWeir 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998. He's traveled over much of that vast territory, reporting on stories ranging from Russia's financial crash to the war in Chechnya, creeping Islamization in central Asia, Russia's demographic crisis, the rise of Vladimir Putin and his repeated returns to the Kremlin, and the ups and downs of US-Russia relations). "Worse than the Cold War? US-Russia relations hit new low." Christian Science Monitor 4-20-2021 https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/0420/Worse-than-the-Cold-War-US-Russia-relations-hit-new-low~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI Space weapons heighten potential for escalation and make perceptions of US-Russia space conflict key.Alexey Arbatov et al, head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, a principal researcher at the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations and Peter Topychkanov, fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program, ‘17 "Russian And Chinese Perspectives On Non-Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear Risks" Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Publications, https://www.russiamatters.org/sites/default/files/media/files/Entanglement'interior'FNL.pdf It’s existential.Owen Cotton-Barratt 17. PhD in Pure Mathematics, Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute. 2-3-2017. "Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance." https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf 1AC – DetritusAdvantage 3 is DetritusAsteroid mining spikes the risk of satellite-dust collisionsScoles 15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Sarah Scoles, freelance science writer, contributor at Wired and Popular Science, author of the books Making Contact and They Are Already Here) "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New Scientist, May 27, 2015, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630235-100-dust-from-asteroid-mining-spells-danger-for-satellites/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI Commercial rocket launches produce space clutter—increased debris could reach a tipping point. AND private companies are impossible to control – only space decolonization solvesThompson 20 ~~~~~~~(Clive, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, a columnist for Wired magazine, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) "Monetizing the Final Frontier The strange new push for space privatization," December 3, 2020 https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI Private space companies vastly outpace the public sector and avoid regulation which makes it a uniquely dangerous industryRauenzahn et al, 20 (The Regulatory Review, 6-6-2020, accessed on 1-14-2022, The Regulatory Review, "Regulating Commercial Space Activity ~| The Regulatory Review", https://www.theregreview.org/2020/06/06/saturday-seminar-regulating-commercial-space-activity/)azhang Space dust wrecks satellites and debris exponentially spiralsIntagliata 17 ~~~~~~~(Christopher Intagliata, MA Journalism from NYU, Editor for NPRs All Things Considered, Reporter/Host for Scientific American’s 60 Second Science) "The Sneaky Danger of Space Dust," Scientific American, May 11, 2017, https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-sneaky-danger-of-space-dust/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI Early warning satellites going dark signals attacks – causes miscalc and goes nuclearOrwig 16 ~~~~~~~(Jessica, MS in science and tech journalism from Texas AandM, BS in astronomy and physics from Ohio State) "Russia says a growing problem in space could be enough to spark a war," Insider,’ January 26, 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-says-space-junk-could-spark-war-2016-1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TDI Anti-Satellite Weapons and Space Debris Collisions Lead to Arms Race and WarBlatt 20 Talia M. Blatt ~~~I am a rising sophomore at Harvard, considering a joint concentration in Social Studies and Integrative Biology with a citation in Chinese. I specialize in East Asian geopolitics and security issues~~~., 26.MAY.2020, "Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Emerging Space Arms Race," Harvard International Review, https://hir.harvard.edu/anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-emerging-space-arms-race/ Nuke war causes extinction – it won’t stay limitedEdwards 17 ~~~~~~~(Paul N. Edwards, CISAC’s William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky/card is only parts of the interview directly from Paul Edwards.) "How nuclear war would affect Earth’s climate," EarthSky, September 8, 2017, earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~~~~~~~ TDI AC – AdvocacyThus, resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. | 1/15/22 |
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