Tournament: New Trier | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West TA | Judge:
Contention 1 is The Revolution
THE FIRST BEAT
I
Slid
Down
The smile
Of
A
Word
Drilled
That is my origin..
But,
I
don’t remember
if
I
Was expelled
Or
If
I took my things
And
Slid down
Thinking…
THE SECOND BEAT
It was
Words
That created
Us.
They
Shaped us,
And spread
Their lines
To control
Us.
A SUBVERSIVE ENDING
But
I
Know
That
A few men
Gather
Inside caverns
In SILENCE
Never again will the Zapatistas be alone…
- Subcamadante Insurgente Marcos (The most wanted man in Mexico, Two Beats and A Subversive Ending, Our Word is Our Weapon, pg 1, CP)
We have now entered into a Fourth World War: The War of Economic Exploitation and Globalization. This year’s resolution calls upon us to become complacent in the system of neoliberalism that saturates all markets of global capital and seeks to bring modernity under the blanket of economic exchange. Politicians have become mere business managers, while cooperate elite get rich off of the labor of the poor. We must resist this logic of domination. The alternative risks planetary extinction
Marcos 97 (Subcomandante Marcos, Revolutionary and Leader of the Zapatistas, The Fourth World War Has Begun, Nepantla: Views from South 2.3, 1997, CP)
Neoliberalism, as a global system, forms of resistance that humanity deploys against neoliberalism.
Thus we affirm the position of the Zapatistas. We declare war on capitalisms attempt to render entire populations and the natural world as disposable. All across Mexico and the rest of Latin America strategies of resistance have sprung forth, challenging globalizations attempt at economic integration. This debate round is key to foster a form of political participation that cultivates democratic engagement with the world
Marcos 97 (Subcomandante Marcos, Revolutionary and Leader of the Zapatistas, The Fourth World War Has Begun, Nepantla: Views from South 2.3, 1997, CP)
Figure 7 is constructed by drawing a pocket. a world that can contain many worlds, that can contain all worlds.
Contention 2 is Our Manifesto
We declare war on the government. American politics is dead – the extreme right controls mainstream discourse and an entirely depoliticized public is allowing the 1 to steer the US toward fascism
Giroux 11 Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 1 June 2011, “Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part I”
In the world of popular culture, zombies seem to from any semblance of a claim to democracy.
As debaters, intellectuals, and citizens – higher education represents the last bastion of democratic dissent, but one threatened by ongoing corporatization. We use the Zapatista Liberation Army as a method by which we can occupy the debate space and academic thought to deconstruct the totalizing discourse of elites
Giroux 11 Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 21 November 2011, “Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals”
Finding our way to a more humane future demands their future and to democracy itself.
The Affirmative is a prerequisite to productive political action - Analysis of neoliberalism and alternatives is key to effective Latin American economic policy
Walton 4 (Michael, adviser in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, " Neoliberalism in Latin America: Good, Bad, or Incomplete?" Latin American Research Review 39.3 (2004) 165-183. MUSE)
Impacts on Inequality and Social Conditions for development practice. We conclude with a few observations on this.
Framework hacks take the bench for this one - The curriculum has been coopted by violent neoliberal forces – This debate round is key
Hill 10 (Dave Hill is professor of education policy at the University of Northampton, England, and professor of education at Middlesex University, London, England. 2010. Revolutionizing Pedagogy: Education for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neo-Liberalism. Eds. Sheila Macrine, Peter McLaren, and Dave Hill, pp. 135-138)
Impacts on Democracy and on Critical Thinking economically just, democratic, socialist society: in that way we maintain our dignity and hope.