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Greenhill Round Robin | 1 | Pace HP | Tim Mahone Andres Gannon |
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St Marks | Semis | Bishop Guertin ID | Ryan Galloway, Sarah Spring, Colin Quinn |
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TOC | 6 | Niles West NP | Andres Gannon |
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Tournament of Champions | 1 | Cedar Ridge | Eric Emerson |
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1AC Agriculture AdvantageTournament: St Marks | Round: Semis | Opponent: Bishop Guertin ID | Judge: Ryan Galloway, Sarah Spring, Colin Quinn The Green revolution is catching up to us—industrial agriculture is unsustainable; a new model is key Eutrophication: A Growing Problem¶ Nutrient pollution in water, or eutrophication, is Robin Kundis Craig, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, 2k3 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they What is the likelihood of this set of interconnected predicaments 27 leading to The plan is key to the Cuban agriculture model: Creates a key export market For the U.S. organic market, in addition to a lifting of It’s an essential source of investment Resolves energy shortages | 10/23/13 |
1AC Embargo AdvantageTournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cedar Ridge | Judge: Eric Emerson The Cuban embargo places an economic chokehold on Cuban society—causes a significant rise in suffering and deathMottas 4/30/11 (Nicolas Mottas is a graduate of Political Science and Diplomatic Studies (University of Westminster 26 Diplomatic Academy of London), a MA candidate in Conflict Resolution and Mediation (Tel Aviv University) and a freelance article writer, "U.S. embargo on Cuba: A 50 years-old crime", http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-embargo-on-Cuba-A-50-by-Nicolas-Mottas-110429-665.html) This small nation poses not even the smallest threat for the United States, yet This is a mask for a specific political and economic agenda taking revenge on the Cuban people for interfering with United States corporations. There is a direct and historical correlation between the embargo and Cuban sufferingLopez-Levy and Abrahams 2008 (Arturo, Masters in International Affairs from Columbia, and Harlan, LLM from Harvard Law School, "ANYTHING BUT HUMAN RIGHTS: U.S. POLICY TOWARD CUBA", http://www.upf.edu/dcpis/_pdf/alopezlevy.pdf) A problem arises when a foreign policy from country A toward country B employs Human This produces public health catastrophes. Reject sanctions policy because it uses people as a means to a political endBarry 2000 (Michele Barry, MD, "Effect of the U.S. Embargo and Economic Decline on Health in Cuba", http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Effect_of_the_U.S._Embargo_and_Economic_Decline_on_Health_in_Cuba.pdf) Several public health catastrophes on the island have been directly attributed to the U.S. embargo¶ (8–10). In 1992 and 1993, more than 50 000 cases of optic and peripheral neuropathy occurred. This epidemic was attributed to reduced nutrient intake, which was caused by food shortages, and local tobacco use, which increased the risk for blindness. Use of costly multivitamin supplements dramatically decreased the incidence of blindness (9, 10). In addition, an epidemic of esophageal stenosis in toddlers who inadvertently drank liquid lye is believed to be the result of a soap shortage that caused Cubans to use lye as a substitute (8). A 1994 outbreak of the Guillain–Barre´ syndrome in Havana was caused by water that had been contaminated with Campylobacter species because chlorination chemicals were not available for puri?cation (8). Serious shortages of insulin, other medications, and vaccines have also taken their toll, especially on the health of children¶ (2, 3). I reviewed several HIV projects for the SSRC this year and was struck by the difference in Cuba’s approach to AIDS since my last visit. In 1983, I gave a lecture about HIV and was bluntly told that because homosexuality and intravenous drug usage did not exist in Cuba, AIDS would never become an meaningful issue. In 1985, when the ?rst cases of AIDS occurred among international workers returning from Angola, Cuba allotted 243 million for HIV testing equipment (4). In 1986, the Cuban Ministry of Health instituted HIV screening for large segments of the population, including all persons who had traveled abroad since 1976 and members of high-risk groups, such as prison inmates, workers in the tourist industry, sailors, pregnant women, and persons admitted to hospitals (4, 11). Cuba restricted importation of blood products; incorporated HIV testing into routine health care screening; and, for the public safety of the collective community, quarantined persons with con?rmed positive results on HIV tests in a Havana sanitarium (11). This policy of quarantine drew charges of human rights violations, and, in response, the Cuban AIDS program evolved. Thirteen additional sanitariums were constructed in each province of Cuba. This allowed HIV-positive residents to move closer to their communities and laid the groundwork for ambulatory HIV care, which began in 1993 (4). Educational programs and promotion of condom use were slowly combined with the identi?cation of infected persons. Currently, most persons who are newly diagnosed with HIV infection are asked to enter a sanitarium for 6 months to a year to participate in an intensive course that covers mental and physical hygiene and safe-sex practices. Sanitarium residents receive expensive medications, such as zidovudine and didanosine, free of charge (4); are paid their full wages or receive public assistance without working; and have above-average housing accommodations. They receive a high-calorie diet supplemented with animal protein, which is rationed in the general population. Ambulatory patients must support themselves ?nancially but are eligible for special protein rations and free medications.¶ Cuban of?cials believe that mandatory tracing and testing of sexual partners of HIV-positive persons have resulted in the lowest reported prevalence of HIV in the hemisphere. As of May 1999, Cuba reported a total of 761 cases of AIDS (6); the Table contrasts the AIDS rate in Cuba with those in nearby countries (6). The quarantine policy may illustrate the tradeoffs that have characterized Cuban society, in which individual rights and freedoms may be abrogated for the public good. The current embargo has affected the availability of antiretroviral therapy and reagents for HIV testing and CD4 cell counts (3). From a more personal perspective, I was impressed by the increased tourism in Cuba and the openness with which citizens discussed the failures of the revolution as well as its successes. Large-scale prostitution was controlled after Castro came to power but has recently increased because of the economic trade crisis and burgeoning tourism. Because prostitutes threaten HIV containment, Castro has "cracked down" on jineterismo, or the sex trade with tourists. The Clinton Administration announced a recent initiative to expand relations with Cuba. This initiative was issued 20 March 1998 as a press release and culminated in a baseball game and permission to send a limited amount of U.S. money to relatives in Cuba. Most people see this initiative, which also permits more airplane ?ights from the United States to Cuba, as a meaningless gesture that does not offer much economic relief to the general population (12). Nevertheless, the Clinton Administration has expedited cultural and academic exchanges. The SSRC has initiated requests for proposals for academic collaboration between scholars in Cuba and North America (http://www.acls.org/pro-cuba.htm), and U.S. medical student rotations and residency rotations will be permitted in rural Cuba under the sponsorship of a nonpro?t U.S. organization, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) (http://www.medicc.org/body_index.html). In the 20th century, economic sanctions have become a common tool of foreign policy. Examples include the collective international sanctions against southern Rhodesia, Iraq, Serbia, Montenegro, Libya, Haiti, South Africa, Rwanda, Angola, and Somalia and unilateral U.S. sanctions against Nicaragua, Cuba, Iran, Panama, and Sudan. Because economic sanctions result in shortages of food and medical supplies, their most severe consequences are often felt by the persons who are least culpable and most vulnerable; untoward health sequelae usually occur in civilian rather than military populations (8). It has been shown that women and children younger than 5 years of age are particularly affected by food shortages and weakened public health infrastructures caused by embargoes (13). The U.S. embargo against Cuba, one of the few that includes both food and medicine, has been described as a war against public health with high human costs (10). Although the Cuban government’s curtailment of individual liberties and privacy may be seen as an abridgment of personal freedom, we as health care professionals have a moral duty to protest an embargo that engenders human suffering to achieve political objectives. Medicine, food, and water puri?cation materials should be made available or, preferably, should be exempt from sanctions. Of?cial monitoring of the effects of economic sanctions on civilian populations should become a high priority. This endangers the health of millionsTutton 11/2/09 (Mark, "Report: U.S. sanctions put Cubans’ health at risk", http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/01/amnesty.cuba.health/) LONDON, England (CNN) — The U.S. trade embargo on The thesis that the USFG is inherently and irredeemably racist is both historically flawed and politically debilitating. It creates a witch hunt mentality, fragmenting movements’ members and goals, preventing any progress from being made on concrete racial inequalities.Daniel A. FARBER, Associate Dean and Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, 98 ~January 1, 1998, "Is American Law Inherently Racist," Debate between Richard Delgado and Daniel A. Farber, Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository, http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=121126context=facpubs26sei-redir=126referer=http3A2F2Fscholar.google.com2Fscholar3Fstart3D1026q3Drelated3ARVxu2BBQFe0vOM3Ascholar.google.com2F26hl3Den26as_sdt3D02C11~~23search=22related3ARVxu2BBQFe0vOM3Ascholar.google.com2F22~~ PROFESSOR FARBER: As I was getting ready to leave for the airport, my Complete rejection of institutional logic of civil society crushes anti-white supremacy politics.Kimberle CRENSHAW Law @ UCLA 88 ~RACE, REFORM, AND RETRENCHMENT: TRANSFORMATION AND LEGITIMATION IN ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1331 L/N~ Questioning the Transformative View: Some Doubts About Trashing Civic engagement grounded in educated hope is the superior option. Hope is only meaningful when we identify agencies and processes for engagement and transformationGiroux 4—Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies @ McMaster University ~Dr. Henry A. Giroux (Former professor of Education @ Miami 26 Penn State University), "When Hope is Subversive," Tikkun, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2004~ It is hard not to believe that politics in American life has become corrupt, We have no illusions that advocacy of "should" statements translates into changes in government policy — BUT our opinions have real effects on ourselves and social worlds we form together. The advocacy of legal change is vital to personal opinion formation and agency to critically question the those who hold the levers of power. Their demand to understand the debate round in terms of the immediate effects of language is a function of narcissism about how profoundly their story impacts this audienceCarlson ’99 (David Gray, COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW. v99 November Lexis) | 4/26/14 |
Transition AdvantageTournament: TOC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Andres Gannon During the Cold War, Cuba was a threat because it was a Soviet ally Raúl Castro formally assumed office in 2008 facing an aging population, heavy foreign debt Many observers predict that Raúl Castro will follow the Chinese model of gradual reform rather CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION U.S. policy makers need to confront the real Cuba LIFT ALL SANCTIONS AND PURSUE NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA Normalcy is the only policy Regardless of the succession, under the current U.S. policy, Cuba’s The threat of nuclear terrorism looms much larger in the public’s mind than the threat The understanding that small but violent acts can spark global conflagration is etched into the | 4/27/14 |
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