Tournament: META | Round: 1 | Opponent: META | Judge:
CONTENTION 1: INHERENCY
Current maquiladora employees in Mexico suffer from a fatal indifference.
Arriola - 7 Elvia R.,
(Professor of Law - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vo. 5, Issue 2, Spring/Summer)
PLAN TEXT:
The US Federal Government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico through funding of nonprofit NGO micro-financing.
CONTENTION 2: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
First, there is an epidemic of violence against Mexican women
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)
AND
Sexual violence is evil which independently justifies action
Chowdhury 2002
(Rumna Chowdhury, Former Program Manager of the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project, Winter 2002, “Kadic v. Karadzic - Rape as a Crime Against Women as a Class”, Law and Inequality”, 20 Law and Ineq. J. 91, p. L/N)
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This dehumanization outweighs all, it makes every impact inevitable
Berube, professor of speech communication at the University of South Carolina, 1997,
(David, June/July, “NANOTECHNOLOGY PROLENGIVITY: The Down Side,” Nanotechnology Magazine, http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm, TH)
CONTENTION 3: POVERTY/STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
NAFTA is crushing poverty
CTC, ’11, (http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/nafta_women.pdf)
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Solving poverty is a moral obligation
Fathi Aburafia, literary critic and is currently staff at UN New York, AL-AHRAM Weekly December 2006 (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/sc42.htm)
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Structural Violence will outweigh any negative scenario
Gilligan ’96, quoted 5-21-08 in
(http://goatrope.blogspot.com/2008/05/structural-violence.html ellipses in original James Gilligan is a psychiatrist who has been on the faculty of New York University)
CONTENTION 4:FEMINISM
Mexican women are being oppressed as we speak
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 Sociology 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)
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Gender oppression perpetuates patriarchy
Nidya Sarria 8/3/2009 Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Relations ‘FEMICIDES OF JUÁREZ: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MEXICO’
( http://www.coha.org/femicides-of-juarez-violence-against-women-in-mexico)
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This will result in extinction and is the root cause of all impacts.
Nhanenge 2007
(Jytte, Masters @ U South Africa, Accepted Thesis Paper for Development Studies, “ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT, uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/10500/570/1/dissertation.pdf)
CONTENTION 5:SOLVENCY
Mexican NGOs Solve All Scenarios
Deb Wilson ’09, Feb., (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22952
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Micro Finance Meets our Obligation to Women
Nayeli Vivanco ’06 College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern University,Boston, MA Senior Honors Project Spring, 2006, (http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047andcontext=honors_projectsandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dmicrocredit2Bwomen2Band2BMexico26source3Dweb26cd3D1626ved3D0CEcQFjAFOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Firis.lib.neu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10472526context253Dhonors_projects26ei3DfcwWUsvPHqHl4AOB6YDIDA26usg3DAFQjCNGULrRq34-jqSmgIqzvlzuD6_UDRA26bvm3Dbv.511565422Cd.dmg#search=22microcredit20women20Mexico22)
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Micro-Finance Solves Systemic Poverty in Mexico
Nayeli Vivanco ’06 College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern University,Boston, MA Senior Honors Project Spring, 2006, (http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047andcontext=honors_projectsandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dmicrocredit2Bwomen2Band2BMexico26source3Dweb26cd3D1626ved3D0CEcQFjAFOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Firis.lib.neu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10472526context253Dhonors_projects26ei3DfcwWUsvPHqHl4AOB6YDIDA26usg3DAFQjCNGULrRq34-jqSmgIqzvlzuD6_UDRA26bvm3Dbv.511565422Cd.dmg#search=22microcredit20women20Mexico22)
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Our gendering of trade politicizes the roots of exploitation, and the plan enables a labor movement in transnational female workplaces – that’s key to civic participation and leads to 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)
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Global Transformation Results
Pain and Miller, ’12, David Pain of Christian Aid, Carolyn Miller of Merlin, Sam Worthington of InterAction, Keny-Guyer of Mercy Corps, Helene Gayle of CARE and Bill Drayton of Ashoka. Nonprofit Organizations Knowledge Initiative, 10-8-12, (http://www.npoki.org/reinventing-the-international-ngo/)