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C1. neoliberalism
Resource extraction in developing countries is influenced by neoliberalism. Corporations and states suppress environmentally-focused protest by indigenous groups with violence.
Downey et al. 10 writes
Liam Downey, Eric Bonds, and Katherine Clark (University of Colorado at Boulder). "Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation." Organ Environ. 2010 December ; 23(4): 417–445.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169238/pdf/nihms317120.pdf
Of course, transportation technology alone does not ensure access to affordable raw materials,
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or providing security for roads, railroads, and naval shipping lanes (Klare, 2001, 2004).5

Neoliberal governmentality ensures war, disease, and environmental collapse- economic decision-making views people as a disposable resource for producing capital, only stepping outside this frame for politics can avert extinction

Giroux 6 (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada.  "Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)
While it would be ludicrous to suggest that the United States either represents a mirror
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1990s alone, war forced 20 million children to leave their homes.16  

Questioning of capitalist tendencies is a prerequisite to ethical determinations;. We have an a priori ethical obligation to reject global capitalism under any moral theory – capitalism makes its victims anonymous, destroying the ability to find value in life

Zizek and Daly ’4(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 18-19)
For Zizek, a confrontation with the obscenities of abundance capitalism also requires a transformation
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that, like Zizek’s own thought, exhorts us to risk the impossible.

C2. Is the revolution

In 1994, a group of indigenous people in Mexico and disgruntled Mexican citizens marched on the government and demanded that the state no longer ignore them, and provide for the needs of their people. This declaration of war marked an eventual rupture in the fabric of globalization.

Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, "Returning to Revolution", ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 102-103)-jn

It is also possible, however, that revolutionary interventions really split political life down
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is acknowledged but ultimately staved off through mediating forms of compromise and representation.

Thus, I advocate solidarity with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and embracing of Zapatista ecopolitics in resistance to resource extraction in developing countries in order to develop a different pedagogy, beyond neoliberalism.

The Zapatistas of Mexico prioritized environmental protection against the neoliberal order
Nail 10 writes
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or signifies anything, but rather a singular and constantly renegotiated abstract machine.

In fact, I am a part of Zapatismo—it’s a universal movement that operates within any challenge to neoliberalism—it’s time to embrace a new politics.

Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, "Returning to Revolution", ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 139)-jn

As a body politic, Zapatismo invents a new condition for social order and inclusion
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Zapatismo as a social body each time they meet (see Chatterton 2007). 

The judge should act as a philosopher that joins and fuses with the Zapatismo movement, and the role of your ballot is to maintain a transformative politics against the neoliberal order. Vote for the team that both performativity and pedagogically breaks down neoliberalism.

Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, "Returning to Revolution", ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 8-9)-jn

So, if there are no universal foundations or categories for all political life,
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useful to those engaged in the present revolutionary task of changing the world.

We should recreate debate as a pedagogical space beyond the ideological parameters of neoliberalism. This is the only way to change the world—each and every instance is key

Rodriguez 9 (Arturo, professor in the College of Education at Boise State University, "Anti-capitalist Analytical Fusion: Science, Pedagogy and Revolution", Journal for Activist Science 26 Technology Education, volume 1, number 2, pp. 48-58)-jn-gender+disability modified

If the above resembles a rant consider why a string of words that includes political
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more importantly, offer an alternative to the living currently destroying the planet.