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Part 1 – the Rio Puerco

On July 16, 1979...15 tailings dams broke, releasing their contents into the wider watershed areas.””
      Dr. Valerie Kuletz in The Tainted Desert, 1998
MUCH OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA HAS BEEN MARKED-OFF AS ZONES OF SACRIFICE, AREAS WHERE THE LANDSCAPE AND ITS INHABITANTS ARE A SMALL COST FOR THE PURSUIT OF HEGEMONY – THE RIO PUERCO IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE – EVERY PHASE OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE SEEMS TO EXACT A HEAVY TOLL ON NATIVE NORTH AMERICA.  MINING REQUIRES WORKERS WHO ARE EXPOSED TO RADIATION AND SOOT, MINING LEAVES TAILING PILES THAT NO ONE WILL CLEAN-UP, WEAPONS ARE THEN TESTED ON OR VERY NEAR NATIVE LANDS, WHILE NUCLEAR PLANTS DISPOSE OF SPENT FUEL RODS NEAR INDIAN COMMUNITIES.

THE NUCLEAR AGE HAS NOT COME WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE – ITS JUST DESIGNED TO SEEM THAT WAY.  THE PRICE WE PAY FOR HEGEMONY IS THE HIDDEN VIOLENCE OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE.
Dr. Valerie Kuletz, independent scholar and writer, 1998
(The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West, pg. 118-120)
The United States has ... far less prestige, privilege, and power.
THE IMPACT IS DEATH AND SUFFERING ON MASSIVE SCALE – ARMED WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE VIOLENCE INVISIBLE, THE NEXUS OF POWERS THAT COMPRISE THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY ARE UNLEASHED – HUMAN BEINGS BECOME DISPOSABLE, WHOLE SPACES AND CULTURES BECOME SACRIFICIAL
Henry A. Giroux, PhD, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 28 September 2010
http://www.truth-out.org/memories-hope-age-disposability63631, “Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability,” ACC. 12-18-10, JT
Welcome to the new era of...visions of the good society is now considered a waste of time.
Part 2 – Mapping
What is most dangerous about the nuclear establishment is not its violence but its invisibility – the process of engaging with the narratives read in part 1 is the act of mapping the nuclear landscape.  This process is necessary to re-think our ethical approach to nuclear violence.  We cannot move forward with technical fixes to small problems – we have to acknowledge that the nuclear age is upon us and its price was and remains awful
Dr. Valerie Kuletz, independent scholar and writer, 1998
(The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West, pg. 118-120)
With the inclusion of...grounds of their lethal waste.
MAPPING IS NOT JUST ABOUT URANIUM, ITS ABOUT POLITICS – WE NEED TO RADICALIZE ACADEMIC THOUGHT SO THAT IT CAN PRO-ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN PEDAGOGY – WE DO NOT HAVE A PLAN BUT THIS DEBATE IS NOT ABOUT THE TECHNO-BUREAOCRATIC POLICY CHANGE, IT IS ABOUT PEDAGOGY.  LEARNING THE SKILLS OF ARGUMENTATION IS GOOD BUT SHOULDN’T BE THE ONLY THING WE DO IN DEBATE – WE NEED TO BETTER LEARN HOW TO ENGAGE POLICY QUESTIONS IN THE NUCLEAR AGE.  WE CANNOT DO THAT IGNORANTLY WITH A LONG HISTORY OF NUCLEAR VIOLENCE BELOW OUR FEET.  INSTEAD, WE CHALLENGE THE JUDGE TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO THIS INSTANCE OF NEO-LIBERAL SACRIFICE AND VOTE AFFIRMATIVE TO MAP THE NUCLEAR LANDSCAPE.
Henry A. Giroux is the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 2K5
“Cultural Studies in Dark Time, http://www.henryagiroux.com/online_articles/DarkTimes.htm, FAST CAPITALISM, 1.2, acc 9-25-07, JT
In opposition to these ...investment in public life (Couldry 2004).

FINALLY, THE PROBLEM OF NUCLEAR WASTE IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE – THE AFFIRMATIVE IS A MEANS OF ENGAGING IMPORTANT POLICY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH WASTE ON AN ETHICAL LEVEL – WE ARE A PRE-REQUISITE TO DEALING ETHICALLY WITH THE INEVITABLE PROBLEM OF NUCLEAR WASTE
Dr. Valerie Kuletz, independent scholar and writer, 1998
(The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West, pg. 118-120)
Why has the “nuclear crisis” ...will as well as scientific expertise.

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THEIR DEMAND FOR SWITCH-SIDE DEBATE UNIQUELY DE-POLITICIZES THE ACTIVITY
Ronald Walter Greene and Darrin Hicks, 2K5
“LOST CONVICTIONS: Debating both sides and the ethical self-fashioning of liberal citizens,” Cultural Studies Vol. 19, No. 1 January, JT

"This paper argues that the strong liberal defence of debating both sides...circulation and uptake of cultural technologies."

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1. THE LOGIC OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITAL IS A PROJECT OF SACRIFICIAL GENOCIDE THAT SILENCES DISSENT AND NORMALIZES DOCILITY WHERE WE BECOME UNABLE TO STOP THE WAR MACHINE CULMINATING IN COLLECTIVE SUICIDE.  THIS IS THE ULTIMATE PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY FOSTERING A DEATH DRIVE OF ENDLESS ERROR REPLICATION THAT MAKES ALL THEIR IMPACTS INEVITABLE
   Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Dir. of the Center for Social Studies at the Univ. of Coimbra, 2K3
   http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html, BAD SUBJECTS, Issue #63, April, Accessed 8-24, 2005, JT

According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly globalization of war. The machine of democracy and liberty turns into a machine of horror and destruction.

STYLZED DEBATES ABOUT “PREDICTABLE GROUND”, “FAIRNESS” AND TRADITION ARE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS RIDDEN WITH POWER RELATIONS WHERE REPETITION OF THE DOMINANT META-NARRATIVE OF DEBATE BECOMES NATURALIZED AND IMPOSED.   THESE STANDARDS SIDETRACK PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL ACTION TO CONFRONT SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION
Richard Delgado, Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado.  J.D. 1974, University of California at Berkeley, 1992     *We don’t endorse the gendered language in this evidence!May, Cornell Law Review, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 813, ESSAY SHADOWBOXING:  AN ESSAY ON POWER, JT
Underlying these stylized debates about ……paternalistic, and verge on (shhh!) socialism). n40

ACADEMICS SHOULD NOT EXIST IN A BUBBLE, DIVORCED FROM THE PUBLIC SPHERE.  ABSENT INTELLECTUAL INTERVENTION TO CREATE A CULTURE OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
Henry A. Giroux, PhD, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 12 July 2010
http://www.truth-out.org/the-disappearing-intellectual-age-economic-darwinism61287, “The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism,” truthout, ACC. 12-18-10, JT
A large number of faculty exist in …. becomes society's movement."25

THEIR TRUTH CLAIMS ARE TRAPPED IN A CAPITALIST ONTOLOGY WHICH PREDETERMINES HOW KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED
Schiwy, PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke, andEnnis, PhD Candidate in Lit at Duke, 2K2
(Freya and Michael, Nepantla: Views from the South 3.1 project muse gjm)

The essays gathered in this dossier respond ……….the Andes, all three of these articles are efforts to think about epistemology from the Andes.1