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Maquiladoras 1AC - Round 2 GrapevineTournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Greenhill MR | Judge: PJ Martinez NAFTAFirst are the existing flaws in NAFTA – Mexican maquila employees suffer from a fatal indifference – corporations care more about rapid production of goods, and women workers are treated as insignificant cogs in the wheels of production.Arriola - visited several border towns and met privately with mostly female workers - 7 Elvia R., Professor of Law - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vo. 5, Issue 2, Spring/Summer The gendered violence of NAFTA is unconscionable. NAFTA’s current structure cares more about investors than workers. NAFTA is trading away life and the quality of living on the altar of free trade.Arriola - visited several border towns and met privately with mostly female workers - 7 Elvia R., Professor of Law - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vo. 5, Issue 2, Spring/Summer Second, the Trans Pacific Partnership is the epitome of corporation destructionFlowers et. al 13 Specifically, the impending partnership augments the corporation grasp into Mexico and releases US corporations from sweatshop-free obligationsCohen 8/22 ~Larry Cohen is the president of Communications Workers of America (CWA). He has been president of CWA since 2005. He is a leading voice on the need for real reform in collective bargaining, including the need for the Employee Free Choice Act, and for building workplace democracy through the "Stewards Army." He has united workers in a broad range of sectors including high tech, public employment and customer service, CWA represents 700,000 workers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. It’s one of America’s fastest growing unions. CWA members work in communications, media, airlines, manufacturing and public service, 2013, Working Families Need Fair Trade, Not Free Trade, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-cohen/working-families-need-fai_b_3775696.html, Date Accessed 8/25/13~ And, maquiladoras are explicitly targeted – existing TPP advocates an infinite race to the bottom for the highest profit and allows corporations to extinguish local economies and force communities into sweatshop laborVorpahl ’12 ~Mark, a union steward, social justice activist, writer for Workers’ Action, anti-war and Latin American Solidarity activist, LASC is an association of national and local US-based grassroots Latin America and Caribbean solidarity groups, many of which have long histories of working with grassroots organizations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, 7/6-8, A Global Attack by the One Percent, CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/06/a-global-attack-by-the-one-percent/, Date Accessed 8/25/13~ PlanTherefore, Jonathan and I advocate the following plan:The United States federal government should renegotiate NAFTA to include binding workers’ and envrionmental protections for Mexico in the agreement itself, including: mechanisms for improving basic labor standards based on International Labor Organization recommendations, assistance for local organizing education centers, and full public participation in all parts of the dispute settlement process.SolvencyNAFTA renegotiation is a crucial corrective - incorporating civil society input about NAFTA’s labor failures provides needed information to move past sterile economicsCarlsen 9 ~Laura, Director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City, where she has been an analyst and writer for two decades. She is regular columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, The Huffington Post, 1-12, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/obama-reaffirms-promise-t_b_157316.html, Date Accessed 9/8/13~ The aff’s politicization is critical to spurring debates within the American labor movement, international cross-border organizing, working directly with women in maquiladoras and providing the basis for larger progressive coalitions.Andrias 3 – ~Kate E., Special Assistant To The President and Associate Counsel To The President, and Chief of Staff of the White House Counsel’s Office. Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. Taught American Constitutional Law as a Visiting Professor at L’Institut d’Études Politiques - Paris, France. She has also practiced labor law and worked as a union organizer. University of San Francisco Law Review, Spring, 37 U.S.F. L. Rev. 521, Date Accessed 9/8/13~ Including labor protections in the main body of NAFTA sends a message of people over profitJacobs 10 * ~Cody, Attorney at Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Writing Program Director at Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law 26 Policy, Winter, 17 Geo. J. Poverty Law 26 Pol’y 127, Date Accessed 9/8/13~ The aff is critical to larger labor movements – Cross-border labor collaboration is in doubt because activists have no faith in current labor protections. Current NAFTA-induced constraints are too effective at preventing status quo criticisms of neoliberalism from succeeding.Ayres 4 ~Jeffrey, Political Science Department Chair and Environmental Studies Program Director, Professor of Political Science. Studies in Political Economy, POWER RELATIONS UNDER NAFTA: REASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF CONTENTIOUS TRANSNATIONALISM 74, Date Accessed 9/8/13~ Public debate and documentation of NAFTA’s impact is critical to move past the logic of markets and to force the government to live up to its promises, rolling back the current model of NAFTACarlsen 9 ~Laura is Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy, A Pressing Case for NAFTA Review and Renegotiation, 9-9, http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/5617~~23sthash.E7Fh3OOD.dpuf, Date Accessed 9/8/13~ The plan’s effects do not end in Mexico – the reformation of NAFTA’s labor protections is critical to ensuring stronger ones in future trade negotiationsDelp et al. 4 ~Linda, Project Director, UCLA Center for Labor Research 26 Education, Marisol Arriaga and Guadalupe Palma, Graduates of UCLA Law School, Haydee Urita, Graduate, UCLA Department of Urban Planning and Latin American Studies, and Abel Valenzuela, Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Urban Planning and Chair, Cesar Chavez Center for Chicano Studies, "NAFTA’’S LABOR SIDE AGREEMENT: Fading into Oblivion? An Assessment of Workplace Health 26 Safety Cases", UCLA CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, http://www.labor.ucla.edu/publications/pdf/nafta.pdf~~\ And, NAALC’s enforcement mechanism and regulations are a model for the post-NAFTA trade agreements – specifically the TPPBrooks ’12 ~Tequila Brooks is an attorney and consultant living and working in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. One of her main areas of focus is e-Discovery, in which she has five years of experience working with large international law firms, particularly in the area of corporate governance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance. She also has a wealth of experience derived from practicing, writing, presenting, teaching, and consulting in the area of labor 26 employment law and policy, especially in international and cross-border labor and employment issues. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French. Ms. Brooks received her J.D. and M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1997 and her B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1991. She received her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC in 2010, 7/15, What does Mexico’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership mean for worker rights?, http://tqbrooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-does-mexicos-entry-into-trans.html, Date Accessed 9/7/13~ And, educating the public about the TPP is key – this exact debate room is a perfect example of a starting point for the political movement that must take root in order to combat corporatism – specifically, this spillsover into international movements that organize in the people’s interest.Vorpahl ’12 ~Mark, a union steward, social justice activist, writer for Workers’ Action, anti-war and Latin American Solidarity activist, LASC is an association of national and local US-based grassroots Latin America and Caribbean solidarity groups, many of which have long histories of working with grassroots organizations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, 7/6-8, A Global Attack by the One Percent, CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/06/a-global-attack-by-the-one-percent/, Date Accessed 8/25/13~ And, TPP solvency spillsover sets an international precedence for a brand new model of trade – FAIR TRADE NOT FREE TRADEZeese and Flowers 7/10 ~Kevin, co-director of It’s Our Economy, organizer of National Occupation of Washington DC, one of the original organizers of Occupy movement, President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, Lawyer, Margaret, co-director of It’s Our Economy, Co-host of Clearing the FOG radio, Degree from University Maryland School of Medicine in 1990 and John Hopkins Hospital, advocate of single payer health care system, 2013, Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Global Revolt Against Corporate Domination, Truthout, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17472-stopping-the-tpp-a-victory-in-the-global-revolt-against-corporate-domination?6, Date Accessed 8/31/13~ Spotlighting solves for 3 reasons – activist groups, media scrutiny, and consumer backlash – it also spills over to affect the entire economyGreenhill, et. al 9 (Brian Greenhill is Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Washington–Seattle, Layna Mosley is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Aseem Prakash is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington–Seattle. "Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986–2002" American Political Science Review Vol. 103, No. 4 November 2009.) And, a universal standard for labor rights is necessary in which the organization’s standards and expertise are universally recognized. The International Labor Organization is a perfect example of this – it has an excellent dispute system and enforcement mechanismAlternatives for the Americas 98 ~second draft of a document initially prepared for the April 1998 Peoples’ Summit of the Americas-a historic gathering of activists determined to change the prevailing approach to trade and investment policy in the Western Hemisphere. Building a People’s Hemispheric Agreement, http://www.iatp.org/files/Alternatives_for_the_Americas_Building_a_Peopl.htm, Date Accessed 8/27/13~ The procedural "bracketing out" of our Affirmative is a strategy to maintain the status-quoMeszaros, 1989 (Istvan, Chair of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, The Power of Ideology, p. 232-234) | 1/3/14 |
TBA 1AC Broken ArrowTournament: Broken Arrow | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cascia Hall AH | Judge: Gregg Munday 1ACContention one is InherencyThe Transboundary Agreement has been negotiated and ratified by Mexico – but U.S. implementation is lackingBrown and Meacham ’12 – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senior Staff Members Advantage one is stabilityDrilling along US-Mexico border inevitable ——- only a question of cooperation or unilateral developmentUrdaneta ’10 – associate at Grau Garcia Hernandez 26 Monaco (Law Firm) PEMEX is failing now – the 08 reforms couldn’t do itMelgar ’12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Gulf of Mexico key to PEMEX productionIliff ’12 But, PEMEX doesn’t have the expertise in deepwater drilling to exploit those resourcesMelgar ’12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
The plan solves—the TBA would cause PEMEX reforms by giving Mexico an overwhelming economic incentiveMelgar ’12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. ====Declines in Mexican oil production result in escalating instability==== Mexican stability is critical to U.S. power - Mexican instability collapses hegemonyKaplan ’12 – chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor Heg is key to prevent global nuclear wars that end in extinctionBrooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth ’13 (Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Even if humanity survived the war, we could never rebuild—this makes us vulnerable to extinction and magnifies their impactsBOSTROM 2, PH.D. FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AT OXFORD, 2002 (Nick, Journal of Evolution and Technology, March, http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html) Advantage two is spillsDeepwater oil accident inevitable in the Gulf of MexicoShields ’12 – independent energy consultant Gulf’s ecosystems on the brink—plan key to solve another accidentCraig ’11 – Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at Florida State University The plan solves ——— the TBA leads to safety coordination between the U.S. and MexicoBroder and Krauss ’12 – business correspondents at the New York Times Joint inspection solves oversight —- key to safety even if there’s no Western Gap developmentPadilla ’12 – managing director at IPD Latin America Plan spills over past the border to environmental standardization in the entire Gulf of MexicoVelarde ’12 – attorney and counselor-at-law Gulf ecosystems are critical biodiversity hotspots and have a key effect on the world’s oceansBrenner ’8 – Ocean biod key to survivalCraig 3 - Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at Florida State University Destruction of species leads to a devastation of food chains and wrecks biodiversity and culminates in extinctionMims 11 Resiliency is wrong specifically for the Gulf of Mexico—any shock can be the tipping point – prefer our evidence which assumes the BP oil spillCraig ’11 – Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at Florida State University Advantage three is relationsThe TBA is crucial to US-Mexico relations – failure to ratify results in conflict Bioterror attack inevitable, fast and cant be contained in the status quo – cripples the US and collapses the world economyRense 1 The border is susceptible to bioterror now – cooperation is key to solveRosales et al 11- MD has worked in the health arena for more than 20 years and in public health over 15 years, after serving five years as Director, Office of Border Health for the Arizona Department of Health Services. Dr. Rosales has expertise in program development and implementation, public health administration, policy and health disparities research in the Southwest, (Cecilia, "U.S.Mexico cross-border workforce training needs:survey implementation", January 2011, Journal of Injury and Violence Research at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134923/**)** Bioterror leads to extinction | 11/24/13 |
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