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	1	+Juarez, across the Stanton Street Bridge, where the trash has settled
	2	+becoming thick and oily in the sun, where you run your
	3	+fingers along the rail and bring them up oxidized
	4	+the beautiful black of coal, of stoves, of mines
	5	+they found three girls, dead, link by a necklace of
	6	+barbed wire, around them like a sham feast
	7	+emptied oil in paper cups, newspapers spread
	8	+like place mats, today's tabloids
	9	+No tourists across the bridge except the grifos,
	10	+the young who still pretend to be in love
	11	+with death. I, too, used to be able to find
	12	+what is beautiful in all this lucent despair.
	13	+Today I despise my own sincerity
	14	+my face as in a photograph, clean scrubbed
	15	+hair combed and gelled.
	16	+This is what you must do to survive:
	17	+...Do not attempt to gather things
	18	+of value, the bright smooth-face televisions,
	19	+The glossy shoes with high heels. Hoard only
	20	+objects which will tell them nothing of who you are
	21	+or where you came from.
	22	+
	23	+From “How to be a Maquiladora”
	24	+In How to be a Maquiladora, however, Black departs from the subject of disability to reveal another side of her experience. This slim volume of poetry portrays life in the borderlands between her home of Las Cruces, New Mexico and the Mexican border
	25	+
	26	+Referring to the role of the beauty pageants, a former "Miss maquiladora"
	27	+AND
	28	+FN253~-~- Chela Delgado, former group chief at an electronics assembly plant
	29	+
	30	+Women on the border, 2k
	31	+
	32	+These rapes in Juarez are considered legitimate- the circumstances for which were created under the state
	33	+LAURA BARBERÁN REINARES 10 ("Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Femicides on the US-Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666" South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the Modern Language Association 75.4 (Fall 2010): 51-72.)
	34	+“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta is an
	35	+AND
	36	+“unimportant” rape victims, they are poor and they are dark.
	37	+
	38	+There women’s bodies are viewed as disposable – replicated role in the home and low wages
	39	+Sierra Jorgenson, 04. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/courses/knowbody/f04/web2/sjorgensen.html
	40	+In a changing economic and political climate gender stereotypes in Juárez, Mexico refuse to
	41	+AND
	42	+either until views change or the women step back into their prescribed roles.
	43	+
	44	+Maquiladoras rely on a disposable work force of women – high turnover rate reflects unrealistic expectations about workers’ bodies – this disposability generates a culture of femicide without escape
	45	+gilDa Rodríguez, Dec 2010 (gilda rodríguez is a doctoral student in the Political Science department. She specializes in political theory and race, ethnicity, and politics, and is a Women’s Studies concentrator. Her dissertation focuses on the practices of political membership of indigenous Mexican migrants to the united States. She received a CSW travel grant, which that enabled her to present her paper “From Misogyny to Murder: everyday Sexism and Femicide in Cross-Cultural Context” at the 2010 meeting of the Western Political Science association., “From Misogyny to Murder”, http://www.csw.ucla.edu/publications/newsletters/2010-2011/article-pdfs/DEC2010_Gilda.pdf emoticon_smile
	46	+
	47	+The maquiladora model is built on a conception of its workers as disposable. The
	48	+AND
	49	+and the femicides, continue to be an important player in the city’s economy
	50	+
	51	+Export-oriented economic zones disable and disempower women, ultimately forcing them into direct and indirect forms of prostitution – the gender and racial dimensions of these policies are ignored in economic calculations
	52	+Stienstra 96
	53	+(Madonna/Whore, Pimp /Protector: International Law and Organization Related to Prostitution, Deborah Stienstra is Professor of Politics at the University of Winnipeg)hhs-sh
	54	+Prostitution for military personnel as well as for sex tour- ists has been enhanced
	55	+AND
	56	+in which this type of economic development has fostered gendered and racialized relations.
	57	+Explicit analysis of gender relations is absent in most economic decisions – illuminating the connection between economic and women’s issues is critical to changing harmful policies
	58	+Elson 93, Diane, “Gender Relations and Economic Issues,” Focus on Gender , Vol. 1, No. 3, Macroeconomic Policy and Gender Relations; Income Generation Projects and Empowerment (Oct., 1993), pp. 6-12 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4030260
	59	+
	60	+MOST ECONOMIC ISSUES are discussed, at both technical and popular levels, in ways
	61	+AND
	62	+to empower women to enter more effectively into the discussion of economic issues.
	63	+Plan: We should critically analyze gender relations implicit in economic engagement with Mexico.
	64	+
	65	+We must use this debate round to redefine the traditional role of the intellectual in order to reject male centric ways of knowing the world. Our 1AC is a starting point by which the Latin American woman can be empowered both within the political sphere and social realm
	66	+Miller 2002 (Nicola Miller, “Recasting the role of the intellectual: Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral,” Feminist Review, 2002)
	67	+
	68	+The term 'intellectual' has tended to exclude women by definition. In its most influential
	69	+AND
	70	+as an extension of the home) (Castro-Klaren, 1991).
	71	+
	72	+Our 1AC creates a new political imagination by which we can struggle against repressive regimes and reconstructing gender roles to engage in transformative politics
	73	+Lopez 97 (Francie R. Chassen-López, From Casa to Calle: Latin American Women Transforming Patriarchal Spaces, Journal of Women's History, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1997, pp. 174-191 (Article), CP)
	74	+Chilean writer Marjorie Agosin attempts to characterize the process of how "ordinary women succeeded
	75	+AND
	76	+new political agency is reconstructing gender roles which in turn is transforming politics.
	77	+
	78	+As debaters, intellectuals, and citizens reliant on public discourse our only option is to critically analyze gender relations implicit in economic engagement – higher education is the only form of critical engagement left- but it’s threatened by ongoing corporatization policy. Only the plan can politicize the debate-space and infuse the ballot with concrete political meaning
	79	+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”
	80	+
	81	+Finding our way to a more humane future demands a new politics, a new
	82	+AND
	83	+cultural conditions that are essential both to their future and to democracy itself.
	84	+
	85	+A gendered lens is critical to expose socially constructed and culturally embedded systems of oppression
	86	+Woehrle and Engelmann 8
	87	+(Lynne M Woehrle and Donna Engelmann. Gender Studies. In Lester Kurtz (Editor-in-Chief), Vol. 2 of Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, 3 vols. pp. 859-868 Oxford: Elsevier, http://www.mtmary.edu/pdfs/academics/faculty/woehrle-genderstudies.pdf)hhs-sh
	88	+Bringing gender studies into research on violence, peace, and conflict is essential.
	89	+AND
	90	+us a more complete view of the issues and events that we study.
	91	+
	92	+The exploitation of the Latin American woman underlies the basis by which to combat hierarchal systems of domination that manifest themselves in the form of racism, classism, and material exploitation. Criticisms such as the 1AC are capable of creating grassroots movements and coalitions to encourage new models of economic analysis
	93	+Lopez 97 (Francie R. Chassen-López, From Casa to Calle: Latin American Women Transforming Patriarchal Spaces, Journal of Women's History, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1997, pp. 174-191 (Article), CP)
	94	+But, explains Teresa Tula, Latin American women "are fighting for our rights
	95	+AND
	96	+engendering new units of economic analysis, has undeniably transformed politics as usual.
	97	+
	98	+Injecting gender issues into economic calculations is critical to combat gendered violence
	99	+Sweet and Escalante 10
	100	+(Elizabeth L., visiting assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Sara Ortiz, a gender equity consultant and a researcher on women's safety based in Barcelona, Spain, “HOW PLANNING ENGAGES GENDER VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN, MEXICO AND THE U.S.,” http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/courses/FAA20391_Spring10/Sweet_How20planning20engages20gender20violence.pdf)hhs-sh
	101	+In Mexico, multiple strategies were invoked to respond to gender violence. However,
	102	+AND
	103	+violence in these cities has been reduced as a result of these actions.
	104	+
	105	+The problem can’t be resolved without examining the de-valuing of womens’ lives – regulation alone can’t solve
	106	+Guzmán, and Gaspar de Alba, 10’ (Guzmán G, Gaspar de Alba A. Making A Killing : Femicide, Free Trade, And La Frontera e-book. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press; 2010. Available from: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), Ipswich, MA. Accessed July 22, 2013. emoticon_smile
	107	+When I attended the UCLA “Maquiladora Murders” Conference, I was one of
	108	+AND
	109	+gender violence and murder? Is this so unlikely a scenario for accountability?
	110	+
	111	+Women who speak out in mexico are attacked, raped, or murdered- the state and media manipulation make the aff a prereq and necessitate our reading of it in the debate space
	112	+(Laura Carlsen is Director of the Americas Program, cipamericas.org and a Consultant for Just Associates (JASS). Just Associates (JASS) Mesoamerica: http://www.justassociates.org/meso/index.htm¶ JASS International: http://www.justassociates.org/¶ Open Democracy: 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence¶ Nobel Women’s Initiative: 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence¶ ¶ Photos: Prensa Libre¶ ¶ Source: Americas Program www.cipamericas.org¶ http://alainet.org/active/60271andlang=es 2012-12-12. “Killing the Messenger: Attacks Rise on Women Human Rights Defenders”)
	113	+Juventina Villa knew her days were numbered. A leader of an environmental organization in
	114	+AND
	115	+They are our defense of the present, and guarantee for the future.

EntryDate

2014-04-26 16:14:39.41

Judge

Toby Whisenhunt

Opponent

McDonogh RE

ParentRound

4

Round

3

Team

Whitney Young Dastrup-Sears Aff

Title

1ac- Rd 3- TOC

Tournament

Tournament of Companions