Tournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 2 | Opponent: Walt Whitman YC | Judge: Ben Koh
"Planet Earth: Disability and Environmentalism I," an entry on Venus Speaks Published: Thursday, May 6, 2010 / 3:29 am http://venuspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/planet-earth-disability-and-environmentalism-i/

It’s funny how disability can reach out and touch everything in your life. Everything
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brushing my teeth, for example – and bad about in larger ways. 

Stories like this prove the ways in which environmentalism often forgets about or even penalizes disabled groups. Calls for environmental protection preclude efforts towards accessibility and lock disabled voices out of activist movements. The perfect, green citizen is one who has the luxury of an able body and mind and can opt out of procedures that might harm the environment. Smith

To Each According To Their Own Abilities: Disability and Environmentalism Posted on 14 June, 2012 by s.e. smith-http://meloukhia.net/author/melliesaurus/ http://meloukhia.net/2012/06/to_each_according_to_their_own_abilities_disability_and_environmentalism/-http://meloukhia.net/2012/06/to_each_according_to_their_own_abilities_disability_and_environmentalism/

In the creation of a system that is based highly on individual action, environmental
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every stage to make sure trips are as efficient and functional as possible.

DISABILITY IS NOT CONTAINED WITHIN THE INDIVUDAL BUT RATHER IS RECREATED WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENT– Hahn
(Harlan, University of Southern California – 1985 Toward a Politics of Disability: Definitions, Disciplines and Policies – http://www.independentliving.org/docs4/hahn2.html)
Increasingly, both medical and economic concepts are being challenged by a new socio-
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limitations paradigm" that has traditionally guided the study of disability and rehabilitation.
THUS THE ROLE OF THE JUDGE IS TO BE AN INCLUSIVE EDUCATOR CONCERNED WITH DESTABILIZING THE ENVIRONMENT AND NOTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
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DISEMBODIED FORMS OF DISCOURSE LIKE THE 1AC PRIVILEGE THE NORMATIVE MODEL OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN AND IS PERPETUATES A DANGEROUS ABLEIST EPISTEMOLOGY – THE BODY IS ALWAYS ALREADY A PRIOR QUESTION. Clifford
(Stacy, Dept. of Political Science, Vanderbilt University – Making disability public in deliberative democracy – Contemporary Political Theory July 2011. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpt/journal/v11/n2/full/cpt201111a.html-http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpt/journal/v11/n2/full/cpt201111a.html)
The disability rights motto of ’nothing about us without us’ (Charlton, 1998
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theorize non-verbal speech acts as an integral component of deliberative theory.
DISEMBODIMENT MAKES DEBATE FUNDAMENTALLY INACCESSIBLE . Lanning
~Eric Lanning Eric Lanning is a debater at the University of Houston and former National Debate Tournament Champion. January 22, 2014, "What is Access?", access debate, http://accessdebate.com/2014/01/22/what-is-access/~~
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what "access" means in the context
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or educators, but a process of struggle that has to be joined"

ONLY BY CREATING SAFE SPACES FOR THE DISABLED BODY CAN WE BE TRULY INCLUSIVE.  Nocella clarifies
~Anthony J. Nocella II, "Emergence of Disability Pedagogy", Journal For Critical Education Policy Studies
, 6, Syracuse University, http://www.jceps.com/PDFs/6-2-05.pdf~~

Further, Artiles and Kozleski write, ?The premise of inclusive school communities is
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a platform for people with disabilities, therefore the rise of disability pedagogy. 

QUESTIONS OF ETHICS AND PARTICIPATORY PARITY ARE MEANINGLESS WITHOUT INCLUSIVE INSTITUTIONAL NORMS. Berube 3
~Berube is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University, May 1, 2003, Citizenship and Disability, Dissent Magazine, http://www.alternet.org/story/15809/citizenship_and_disability~~
Imagine a building in which political philosophers are debating, in the wake of the
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disability, we can have no account of democracy worthy of the name. 

QUESTIONING THE  THE PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTS ACCESIBLE TO THE DISABLED BODY IS A SURVIVAL MECHANISM TO FIGHT ABLEIST NORMS THAT RELEGATE DISABLED PEOPLE TO THE LOWEST FORM OF BEING, MAKING IT THE ZERO POINT OF OPPRESSION. Russell 2
~Marta Russell, The Social Movement Left Out, SOA Watch, http://www.soaw.org/resources/anti-opp-resources/112-abilities/828-the-social-movement-left-out~~
It is disheartening, to say the least, when I can still pick up
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Albert phases it, with everyone’s contributions and energies working towards global justice.

Tournament: Note | Round: Quads | Opponent: ALL | Judge: ALL
I decided to delete all my previous stuff for the sake of organization. If you want anything hmu at massacd@bxscience.edu. cites for sunvite will be up sometime friday or sat if I don't forget. If its critical that you have my stuff just find me and I will tell you. 

P.s. I rarely run positions that I would find unfair to engage with substantively and I would much rather tell you what I will be running then have a mindless, pointless, stupid, unproductive theory debate so please find me. I know this won't deter most but I have to try emoticon_unhappy 

Peace -DM

Tournament: greenhill tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil KB | Judge: Eric Melin
CVL justifies the state. Onkwehon ‘13
ONKWEHÓN:WE RISING, JUNE 25, 2013, Declaration of the Revolutionary Front in Defense of the Peoples Rights on the Protests in Brazil, http://onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/declaration-of-the-revolutionary-front-in-defense-of-the-peoples-rights-on-the-protests-in-brazil/

"The system we.....null or blank. "

politicians beholden to elite. Hellinger and Brooks ‘91
Daniel Hellinger and Dennis R. Judd Brooks, The Best Elections Money Can Buy, The Democratic Façade, Cole Publishing Company, 1991, paperhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/BestElections_Money_TDF.html

"Until the problem...the "populist" candidate."

we need to change the system. Herod ‘04
James Herod, "The Strategy described abstractly," Getting Free, 2004, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm

"It is time...patterns and theirs."

cap screws normative evaluations. Morgareidge ‘97
Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College 1998 Clayton Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html’

"Now none of...at the table."v

fight it with ideologies. Mclaren et’al ‘13
Critical Pedagogy Against Capitalist Schooling: Towards a Socialist Alternative. An Interview with Peter McLaren by Jose María Barroso Tristán. Peter McLaren is a Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (United States). He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters. 04/07, http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/critical-pedagogy-againstcapitalist-schooling-socialist-alternative-interview-peter-mclaren/

"The question we ... post-patriarchal perspective."