Tournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
We Demand that the United States federal government unconditionally accept the offer of Cuban disaster assistance.
The deaths of the poor and persons of color force us to connect the floodwaters of Katrina and Sandy to the inevitability of climate change. Neoliberalism sustains the global ecological crisis even as it denies the reality of global warming despite widespread scientific consensus. We should interrupt this cycle of disposability by modeling political movements after the Cuban people’s response to the un-natural disaster of Katrina:
Campbell 12, noted international peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York ~Horace G., "Hurricanes and Individualism: lessons from historic Sandy", Pambazuka News, http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85528~~
Tropical storm Sandy swept through from the Caribbean up the Eastern Seaboard of North America
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so the evidence of the devastation was graphically relayed all over the world.¶
And, the spatial nature of the New Orleans Massacre brings attention to the simultaneously geopolitical and ontological nature of neo-imperialism wherein Black and non-normative bodies are produced as the living-dead slaves of American Empire.
Agathangelou 10, Associate Professor in Political Science and Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto, ~Anna M., Necro-(neo) colonizations and economies of blackness: Of slaughters, "accidents, " "disasters" and captive flesh" in International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Pg. 187-8~
Ccsaire was writing about the dismemberment of the black body that colonization¶ (and
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¶ polities, governmentalities, bodies, ecologies, life, and death.
And, the government deliberately neglected these populations. Cuba offered over one million dollars, several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, canned food, bottled water, heating oil, 26 metric tons of medicine, and 1,500 doctors – but the government REFUSED this life-saving offer, valuing American bodies less than abstract foreign policy objectives against the Castro regime. This moment reveals the logic of disposability at the core of American Empire.
Nimtz 6, parents were evacuated from New Orleans because of Katrina, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota and coordinator of the Minnesota Cuba Committee ~August, "Natural Versus Social Phenomena: Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina", The Black Scholar, Vol. 36, No. 4, Winter, pp. 43-51~
Both the United Nations Development¶ Program (UNDP) and the International Federation¶
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of being made homeless is simply further¶ evidence for this cold reality.
And, the site of New Orleans as internal colony has marked the city ever since the hurricane hit – New Orleans was demarcated as a site of Black violence in need of drastic securitization and this state of emergency was normalized. The city became an internal colony in which the ontological death of non-normative bodies is reinscribed in American civil-society as a necessary component to the smooth functioning of a capitalism of death – this necrocapitalism divests the sovereign State at the Black body.
Agathangelou 10, Associate Professor in Political Science and Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto ~Anna M., Necro-(neo) colonizations and economies of blackness: Of slaughters, "accidents, " "disasters" and captive flesh" in International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Pg. 201-205~
Katrina provided an explosive classed, sexualized, and racial site in which¶ the
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nor its objects (at least not in the most direct¶ sense).
Cuba’s disaster response humiliates the American approach of individualism: this monumental failure primes us to interrupt the cycle of disposability and invigorate struggles against American Empire and its colonial forces.
Alkalimat 06, American professor of African American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, ~Abdul, "KATRINA 101: A Black Studies Curriculum Challenge", The Black Scholar, Vol. 36, No. 4, HURRICANE KATRINA (WINTER 2006), pp. 52-57~
Finally, the Cuban response to Hurricane Ivan and the US’s to Katrina gives the
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, lessons that can help us get clear and unite for common survival.
Agathangelou 10, Associate Professor in Political Science and Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto, ~Anna M., Necro-(neo) colonizations and economies of blackness: Of slaughters, "accidents, " "disasters" and captive flesh" in International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies, Pg. 207-208~
To return to the questions I posed at the beginning of the chapter: a
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fantasies¶ and visions of the world are now revolutionary and live on.
And, rebuilding in the wake of climate atrocities requires demanding Cuba’s offers of disaster assistance and their people’s model of preparedness. Our demand galvanizes autonomous movements against American empire – any other approach gets washed away in the floodwaters of Katrina.
Muhammad 6, National Chairperson of Black Workers For Justice. He is associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, ~Saladin, "Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation’s 9/1121 A Strategic Perspective for Self-Determination", Socialism and Democracy, Vol.20, No.2, July~
Rebuilding and realigning the African American liberation and¶ other social movements around the Gulf
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doing everything possible to cause divisions between the African American and Latino communities.