Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bronx Law AL | Judge: 

*1NC*

(first, play Nina Simone’s Four Women. Begin playing at minute 7:34)

The aff has presented a story of domination from the outside, so overpowering that there is no space for freedom or action. This is a masculinist understanding of the function of power. Black feminism provides an alternative understanding of action and power that is fundamentally at odds with the 1AC. Beginning from the power of black women’s self-definition, the way to freedom begins from and survival comes from placing the self in the center of analysis to transform silence into action.

Patricia Hill Collins 2000 (Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park Black Feminist Thought, 111-114)

"Black groups digging on white philosophies ought to consider the source. Know who’s
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on Black female self-definition validates Black women’s power as human subjects.

We will isolate several reasons why we think the aff should lose:

1) Their analysis of domination is wrong. If domination is merely about the ability of the powerful to define the meaning of the lives of the less powerful, then we would have no understanding of internalized oppression; why do women stay with abusive husbands? Why did slaves not kill their masters more often? On the other hand, how has resistance empirically created spheres of freedom, even within domination? The erotics of power can only be rendered intelligible by black feminism, which the aff does not engage in.

Patricia Hill Collins 2009 (Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination" http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html)

Multiple Levels of Domination In addition to being structured along axes such as race,
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the difficulty of eliminating the cultural context as a fundamental site of resistance.

2) Their race focus reinforces subordination and oppression of other groups. The notion that only the black body is fungible renders the poor white woman as an oppressor, instead of one subjected to domestic violence, rape, and economic exploitation. They have already hierarchized black violence as fundamental. They should lose the debate for their singular axis focus.

Patricia Hill Collins 2009 (Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination" http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html)

Domination operates by seducing, pressuring, or forcing African-American women and members
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through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition."

Black feminist thought is paradigmatically distinct from the aff’s reliance on a solely-race-based understanding of oppression. Black women must be the CENTER of our analysis if we are to create struggles against oppression. Any attempt of the aff to "add" the experience of black women will fail. Only the alternative can challenge formations of domination.

Patricia Hill Collins 2009 (Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination" http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html)

Black feminist thought demonstrates Black women’s emerging power as agents of knowledge. By portraying
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have been equated to one another, to animals, and to nature.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 2 | Opponent: BGN CS | Judge: Matt Olson

Republican debt ceiling deal on the table; but budget negotiations are key; plan destroys any negotiations.

O’Connor et al, October 10, 2013 (Patrick O’Connor, Kristina Peterson and Siobhan Hughes 4 Traders News;  http://www.4-traders.com/news/House-Speaker-Boehner—GOP-May-Offer-Plan-for-Broad-Budget-Talks-Along-With-6-Week-Debt-Ceiling-Inc—17341252/
House Speaker Boehner : GOP May Offer Plan for Broad Budget Talks Along With 6-Week Debt Ceiling Increase)

WASHINGTON—House Republicans on Thursday will offer the White House a six-week
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could allow the Treasury Department to go past the six-week deadline.

Ryan hates Cuban engagement.

Lake 2012 (John, September 23 http://blogcritics.org/romney-and-ryan-get-tough-on/ Romney and Ryan Get Tough on Venezuela and Cuba)

The Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has revealed a get tough policy
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bill which would have allowed unrestricted travel between the United States and Cuba,

Paul Ryan Key; he will balk at anything that will lose conservative support.

Hooper October 10, 2013 (Molly, the hill, Ryan steps up to shape a deal http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327671-ryan-steps-forward-to-shape-a-deal)

Paul Ryan is back in the spotlight. The GOP 2012 vice presidential candidate came
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," Hudson said.¶ Ryan has backed GOP leaders before at critical times.

Failure to reach a deal guarantees permanent government shutdown. – empirics prove

Farry, 1-19-2011
~Yanira, Junior Editor – Veterans Today, Military 26 Foreign Affairs Journal, "GOP-Tea Party Play Chicken With U.S. Credit, Courting Catastrophe," http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/19/gop-tea-party-play-chicken-with-u-s-credit-courting-catastrophe/-http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/19/gop-tea-party-play-chicken-with-u-s-credit-courting-catastrophe/~~
SHUTTING DOWN GOVERNMENT: If the debt limit is reached, the government is forced
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, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity." 

That causes cyberattacks.

Sideman, 2-23-2011
~Alysha, Federal Computer Week Contributor, "Agencies must determine computer security teams in face of potential federal shutdown" http://fcw.com/Articles/2011/02/23/Agencies-must-determine-computer-security-teams-in-face-of-shutdown.aspx?Page=1~~
With the WikiLeaks hacks and other threats to cybersecurity present, guarding against cyberattacks has
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be vulnerable in the face of an attack, reports Federal Computer Week. 

Great power escalation.

Fritz, 2009
~Jason, researcher for International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, former Army officer and consultant, and has a master of international relations at Bond University, "Hacking Nuclear Command and Control," July,  http://www.icnnd.org/latest/research/Jason_Fritz_Hacking_NC2.pdf~~

This paper will analyse the threat of cyber terrorism in regard to nuclear weapons.
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its own, without the need for compromising command and control centres directly.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: MBA | Judge: 

The struggle over the question of who counts as human is THE question of the debate—the system of colonialism instituted by European powers in the 15th and 16th centuries haunts the present in the form of coloniality—an epistemological structure that privileges the Western subject as the only legitimate expression of human knowledge.  The question of Latin American engagement can only be answered when we first unsettle the coloniality of knowledge and being that has demarcated the majority of the world as subhuman populations given over to death.

Wynter 2003 (Sylvia, Professor of Romance Languages at Stanford University, "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument," CR: The New Centennial Review, 3.3 (2003) 257-337, MUSE)
THE ARGUMENT PROPOSES THAT THE STRUGGLE OF OUR NEW MILLENNIUM WILL be one between the
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the other, African enslavement, Latin American conquest, and Asian subjugation.

We have 2 links

First - The affirmative’s economic engagement with Latin America is just one more manifestation of 500 years of coloniality—the promise of prosperity, democracy, and security is a toxic fantasy that obscures the trail of dead reaching back through time.

Mignolo 2005, (Walter, Duke University, "THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA", 2005, 6/28/13|Ashwin) 
The logic of coloniality can be understood as working through four wide domains of human
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very idea of both "America" and "Latin" America..4ever

Second - The Affirmative’s management by extraction is part and parcel of a long history of systematic energy violence, exploitation, and securitization– ultimately marking the indigenous populations surrounding the resources a threat to energy security that must be contained.

Banerjee 9 (Subhabrata Bobby, Director of Research at the School of Business, University of Western Sydney, HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION AND VOICES OF RESISTANCE: TOWARDS A THEORY OF THE TRANSLOCAL, REARTIKULACIJA ~239, 2009, http://www.reartikulacija.org/?p=612/)

Management by extraction arises from the endowment curse and is an all too familiar discourse
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which means certain communities need to be "eliminated." This is necrocapitalism.

Coloniality naturalizes a non-ethics of death and generalizes the condition of damnation—ongoing genocide, enslavement, rape, ecological destruction and unending war is produced by and reproduces colonial epistmeologies.

Maldonado-Torres 2008 ~Nelson. "Against War : Views from the Underside of Modernity"¶ Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2008. p 215-217¶ http://site.ebrary.com/lib/utexas/Doc?id=1021719126ppg=52~~

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding that what happened in
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a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested.72

The alternative is the definitive rejection of epistemic privilege and total decolonization.  The starting point for the decolonial option is the repudiation of death ethics in the name of life.  Dewesternization alone or continuing faith in the project of modernity  fails to undermine the overrepresentation of man.

Mignolo 09 (Walter, Professor of literature-Duke University, Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, academic director of Duke in the Andes-http://www.aas.duke.edu/study_abroad/andes/index.php, an interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Andean Studies in Quito, Ecuador at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, "Epistemic Disobedience,¶ Independent Thought and¶ De-Colonial Freedom" ,Theory, Culture 26 Society 2009)
ONCE UPON a¶ time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in¶ the disciplines
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who take ’originality’ as the ultimate criterion for the final¶ judgment.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Chattahoochee PI | Judge: Arjun Vellayappan

The aff’s epistemological understanding of security is based on gendered threat construction—guarantees extinction
Tickner 1

Ann professor at the School of International Relations USC. B.A. in History, U London. M.A. in IR, Yale. PhD in pol sci, Brandeis U Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era

That causes extinction---edited for language
Nhanenge 7

 Jytte Masters @ U South Africa, paper submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the subject Development Studies, “ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT

The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s gendered enframing of the world—simply the process of critique removes the ideological blinders inherent in policy-making.  The permutation is doomed to failure b/c the starting point of the 1AC was profoundly militarized  
Shepherd 8

 Laura J. Shepherd, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, “Gender, Violence and Global Politics: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Security Studies,” EBSCO

Tournament: New Trier | Round: Octas | Opponent: Niles West CK | Judge: 

Can the revolutionary potential of de-colonial hip-hop justify your ballot?
The 1AC yolks their performance to an explicit Role of the Ballot, enframing their performance within a META-narrative and reducing it to a demonstration of their prior theoretical agenda.
Setting performance standards for PRODUCTIVE communication is a neoliberal impulse that short-circuits their radical potential
Rebecca Herzig 2004

teaches women’s and gender studies at Bates College Feminist Theory 5.2
Yet supplanting…
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help increase accountability for the many marks left on fragile, mortal  bodies.  

This turns the aff – placing judges in a largely colonialist activity in charge of determining who best “performatively and methodologically breaks down colonialism” is dangerous. When the privilege of the intellectual is utilized in “service” of the oppressed in debate, it inevitably serves to maintain the very existence of that structural position.

Maduro 11,

Otto, Latino philosopher and sociologist of religion at Drew University _{“Decolonizing Epistemologies” Chapter “An(Other) Invitation to Epistemological Humility” Fordham University Press, November 2011} 

No wonder, symmetrically, that, for their part, those already esteemed and
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the normal tendency and to take the necessary collective measures to counter it. 

The alternative – vote negative to affirm the 1AC’s imperative to overcome coloniality but reject their role of the ballot as a standard of judgment.
Voting negative is a moment of not-knowing. This moment of not knowing enables the ethical promise of justice by letting go of the desire to know, enframe, and compartmentalize performances against decoloniality – creating an openness to the victims of modernity.
Jones 2009

 Rache l Jones 2009, University of Dundee, “On the Value of Not Knowing: Wonder, Beginning Again and Letting Be,” As presented at ‘On Not Knowing’, a Symposium hosted by Kettle’s Yard and New Hall College, Cambridge, 29th June 2009, to accompany the exhibition ‘Material Intelligence’, Kettle’s Yard, 16 May – 12 July 2009.

 5. Despite this, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, writing
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, to the new thoughts that might emerge from the as yet unthought: