Tournament: mcneil | Round: 1 | Opponent: round rock manzar | Judge: Pangottil, Kevin
Freedom House 3/3 ~Freedom House. Freedom House works to defend human rights and promote democratic change, with a focus on political rights and civil liberties. We act as a catalyst for freedom through a combination of analysis, advocacy, and action. Our analysis, focused on 13 central issues, is underpinned by our international program work. "New Report: The global decline in democracy has accelerated". 3-3-2021. . https://freedomhouse.org/article/new-report-global-decline-democracy-has-accelerated.~~ SJVM
Washington - March 3, 2021 — Authoritarian actors grew bolder during 2020 as major
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environments investigated government transgressions, and activists persisted in calling out undemocratic practices.
McElwee 15 ~Sean; Research Associate at Demos; "How Unions Boost Democratic Participation," The American Prospect; 9/16/15; https://prospect.org/labor/unions-boost-democratic-participation/~~ Justin
Labor organizer Helen Marot once observed, "The labor unions are group efforts in
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a broad swath of the middle class largely unrepresented in the political process."
IER 17 ~Institute of Employment Rights. The IER exists to inform the debate around trade union rights and labour law by providing information, critical analysis, and policy ideas through our network of academics, researchers and lawyers. "UN Rights Expert: Right to strike is essential to democracy". 3-10-2017. . https://www.ier.org.uk/news/un-rights-expert-right-strike-essential-democracy/.~~ SJVM
The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
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this right, and a negative obligation not to interfere with its exercise."
Kendall-Taylor 16 ~Andrea; Deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council, Senior associate in the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington; "How Democracy's Decline Would Undermine the International Order," CSIS; 7/15/16; https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-democracyE28099s-decline-would-undermine-international-order/~~ Justin
It is rare that policymakers, analysts, and academics agree. But there is
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policy, but it would ensure that we are having the right conversation.
Vaidyanathan 5-11 Gayathri Vaidyanathan, 5-11-2021, "Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far," No Publication, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01274-7 SJDA
Scientists are working to understand several coronavirus variants now circulating in India, where a
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in late 2020 and led to a surge of cases there and elsewhere.
Raju 3-24 Raju, Emmanuel, et al. "COVID-19 in India: Who Are We Leaving behind?" Progress in Disaster Science, Elsevier, 24 Mar. 2021, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061721000235~#bb0315. SJDA
The COVID-19 response guidelines advocated by different governments and international organisations include '
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indicates increasing incidence of debt during the lockdowns in some states ~2~.
Conversation 4-30 Conversation, 4-30-2021, "4 Reasons Why India's COVID Crisis Will Derail the World Economy," US News and World Report, https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2021-04-30/4-reasons-why-indias-covid-crisis-will-derail-the-world-economy?fbclid=IwAR1k9KuwWnm_ev35vFjC8vchQIO0gJTCWMV9BcCFA1JEpkkc3oyiydqYvi8 SJDA
The second wave of the pandemic has struck India with a devastating impact. With
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, rapid tests and ventilators); and Germany (oxygen and medical aid).
Liu 18 ~Qian. Qian Liu is a Managing Director, Greater China, the Economist Group. "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why". 11-13-2018. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why.~~ SJVM
The response to the 2008 economic crisis has relied far too much on monetary stimulus
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sensible and respectful global dialogue. The alternative may well be global conflagration.
====Wars go nuclear, Extinction====
Starr 15 ~Steve Starr; Director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility; "Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction," 10/14/19, https://fas.org/pir-pubs/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-human-extinction/~~ Re-Cut Justin
While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from
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few remaining survivors be able to survive in a radioactive, toxic environment?
NLRB 85 ~National Labor Relations Board; "Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1," Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA__v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA__v4xwCandrdot=1~~ Justin
Edited for gendered language
As for the so-called absolute or unconditional
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health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end.
The standard is maximizing life. Prefer it:
~1~ Actor spec: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez - governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.
Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT
There appears to be lot of disagreement in moral philosophy. Whether these many apparent
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be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters)
Abrams 11-30 Abigail Abrams, 11-30-2020, "How COVID-19 Pushed Frontline Workers Into Collective Action," Time, https://time.com/5928528/frontline-workers-strikes-labor/ SJDA
Across the country, workers like Cotton, who have never gone on strike and
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help employers offer bonuses, taking the steam out of some cooperative efforts.
Shahsudarshan 5-24 Aditi Shahsudarshan, 5-24-2021, "Renault-Nissan and Hyundai face shutdowns in India over workers' COVID fears," Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/world/india/renault-nissan-india-union-says-workers-go-strike-wednesday-2021-05-24/ SJDA
Workers at Renault-Nissan's car plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu will
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, vaccinations and higher insurance cover to include medical expenses for their families.
Enforcement through IFAs is normal means – that solves credibility concerns and legal loopholes which encourages striking.
Neill 12 ~Emily CM; "The Right to Strike: How the United States Reduces it to the Freedom to Strike and How International Framework Agreements can Redeem it," 1/1/12; Labor and Employment Law Forum Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 6; https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1047andcontext=lelb~~ Justin
IFAs open the door to collective bargaining by creating a space that alters the traditionally
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for workers, but not one afforded the status of a protected right.