Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: 1 | Opponent: Topeka High CR | Judge: Mike Chilcate
Contention 1 is the Maquiladora
Maquiladora workers are especially vulnerable to rising femicide on the border
Olivia Kirkpatrick 3/27/13 From the Central American Women’s Network for the Latin American Bureau http://lab.org.uk/femicide-in-mexico-the-cotton-field-case-and-its-sequels
“We are here today because
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bring the perpetrators to justice.
Maquila women are subjected to sexual violence, psychological trauma, and infanticide in the workplace
Pantaleo 2006¶ Katie California University of Pennsylvania ?¶ Katie Pantaleo graduated with honors from California University of Pennsylvania ¶ in 2006. She was also the president of the Ssociology Club. Katie is currently ¶ pursuing a master’s degree in social policy at Duquesne University. Sociological Viewpoints “GENDERED VIOLENCE: ¶ MURDER IN THE MAQUILADORAS” Fall 2006 http://www.pasocsociety.org/article2.pdf Herm
One of the problems that many
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premature births or low birth weight (Abell 1999).
The gendered violence of NAFTA is unacceptable. NAFTA is trading away life and the quality of living on the altar of free trade.
Arriola - visited several border towns and met privately with mostly female workers - 7 Elvia R., Professor of Law - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vo. 5, Issue 2, Spring/Summer
The fact that a third-world
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producing the environment suitable for the rise of the maquiladora murders.
Corporate rule at the expense of ordinary working people paying the price is the logic that creates poverty, misery and ecological destruction to destroy the planet
Lendman 07 (Stephen L, The Racist War on Immigrants, 3/29) MBA From Wharton, 2011 Mexican Journalist Club International journalism award recipient, 2008 Project Censored winner. Radio host.
No welcome sign is out for the unwanted poor and desperate
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mass and growing poverty, human misery, and ecological destruction great enough to threaten the ability of the planet to sustain life.
There is a moral obligation to reject rape – it’s a type of sexual violence that’s in the spirit of murder and destroys value to life.
Wing 97.(PROF LAW U IOWA, CONCEPTUALIZING VIOLENCE, 60 ALB. L. REV. 943)
The multiple effect of violence on these
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spirit injuries can "lead to the devaluation and destruction of a way of life or of an entire culture." 42 and misery of others.
You should privilege everyday violence because social bias underrepresents its effects and its effects are exponential, not linear which means even if it only causes a small amount of structural violence, its terminal impacts are huge
Nixon ‘11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3)
Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among
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where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded.
Dismiss low probability scenarios in favor of every day impacts
Rescher, prof. of philosophy at Pitt U, 1983 (Nicholas, “Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management”, p. 50)
The "worst possible case fixation" is one of the most damaging modes
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overall seriousness or gravity of a situation of hazard.
Calculating life instead of preserving value to life justifies the worst atrocities in history and has real effects on populations
Dillon 99 (Michael, Professor of International Relations at the University of Lancaster, “Another Justices” Political Theory, Vol 27, No. 2, 164-5)
Quite the reverse. The subject was never
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the requirement for decision.
Contention 2 is our Strategy
Plan: The United States federal government should renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to include binding workers’ protections for Mexico in the agreement itself.
NAFTA renegotiation is crucial- incorporating civil society input about NAFTA’s labor failures solves the trade agreement's flaws
Carlsen 9 Laura, Director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City, where she has been an analyst and writer for two decades. She is regular columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, The Huffington Post, 1-12, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/obama-reaffirms-promise-t_b_157316.html
The mainstream press is wrong when it says the United States
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the debate must move quickly now to "how and when."
Including labor protections in the main body of NAFTA puts people over profit – it sends a message internationally and helps reevaluate trade agreements across the globe.
Jacobs 10 * Cody, Attorney at Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Writing Program Director at Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Winter, 17 Geo. J. Poverty Law and Pol'y 127
While some would argue that imposition of "international" labor standards amounts to
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in a meaningful way is an important step in this direction.
Even if petitions aren’t successful, the plan still solves – filing alone can generate local pressure
Garcia 9 Kimberly A Nolan, assistant professor in the. International Studies Division at CIDE, the Centro de. Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico, Transnational advocacy and labor rights conditionality in the international trading order
Simply having a petition
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reinforcing pressure on states from the international community with pressure from its own citizens (Risse, Ropp, and Sikkink 1999).
The most recent studies prove trade impacts men and women differently—our gendering of trade is critical to furthering workers’ ability to participate in the political culture that determines their lives
HUBBARD ‘8 Dean, Sierra Club Labor Director. Former Senior Counsel to the Transport Workers Union, AFL-CIO, HASTINGS RACE and POVERTY LAW JOURNAL, Vol. 5, Winter
In many ways, the globalization of the neoliberal
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Disney responded by closing its factory and moving the work elsewhere. 90
The aff is critical to spurring debates within American labor, international cross-border organizing, working directly with women in maquiladoras and creating larger progressive coalitions.
Andrias 3 --Kate E., Special Assistant To The President and Associate Counsel To The President, and Chief of Staff of the White House Counsel’s Office. Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. Taught American Constitutional Law as a Visiting Professor at L'Institut d'Études Politiques - Paris, France. She has also practiced labor law and worked as a union organizer. University of San Francisco Law Review, Spring, 37 U.S.F. L. Rev. 521
The time since NAFTA's signing has made clear that globalization is not a passing phase
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finally decide for themselves what rights they deserve.
Mexico says yes to the plan
Andrias 3 --Kate E., Special Assistant To The President and Associate Counsel To The President, and Chief of Staff of the White House Counsel’s Office. Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. Taught American Constitutional Law as a Visiting Professor at L'Institut d'Études Politiques - Paris, France. She has also practiced labor law and worked as a union organizer. “A LOOK AT THE CONTEMPORARY LABOR MOVEMENT: Gender, Work, and the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement” University of San Francisco Law Review, Spring, 37 U.S.F. L. Rev. 521 *555
The expressive value of NAALC
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have been filed by unions and human rights NGOs. 153