Ahmed-Ybarra Aff

New Team.  Most likely running a version of the Anti-blackness aff.  here is teh outline of the most recent 1AC.  Advocacy statements obviously include all of teh speech, but can be narrowed down to a few incantationsask the team for specifics.  It's typically something along the lines of:

The starting point and priority for animating energy production must be a criticism or a targeted genealogy of what “energy production” means in the context of an equally contentious term: “In the United States.”  In the United States means something in particular for African Americans, the history and recurrence of slavery, immigrant labor and the coerced servitude of bodies defined as “foreign” and utilized like tools, units of labor—sources of energy production that had to be oppressed and contained in order to maximize economic efficiency.  Who built the railroad out West, who cultivated land and built towns across the South? Who settled the Southwest and the Pacific Coast?  Who makes up the what we fondly or cynically call the “melting pot”? Native Americans, Chinese Immigrants, Slaves from Africa and the Caribbean—what some call the Black Atlantic.  Immigrants and Refugees from across the World.  Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Central and South America.

Loving Mother Earth

Chapter One: Who are We?  How do we make Change?  These are central questions for the debate and beyond.

Who are We? What is our standpoint? What subject-positions do we occupy?  How can we proceed with the debate and not have the beginning of answers to these questions?

We know we are not the federal government although we are part of the people that make up the many governing bodies around us.

Even though we are not the federal government, we can still talk about it as debaters, as students, as scholars, as critics.  We are political bodies, we matter, and our expression should be valued as a particular standpoint.  

Our standpoint is that of a Black woman earning her advanced degree.  One of us is…Part of our identity means making sense of feminism and what it means to be a woman, to speak as a woman, to approach the topic as a woman and to debate as a woman. 

Statham, U. Wisconsin, 2000 (“Environmental Awareness and Feminist Progress” Anne. NWSA Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 89-104 (Article) University of Wisconsin-Parkside)

Both theoretical and practical feminism….. must integrate an awareness of the intersections of race, gender, and class (Clough 1994).

Chapter 2. What Matters in this Debate
What type of “energy” PRODUCED Cotton in our Past?  How is the Human Body commodified like a unit of energy?
Feldman & Hsu, Stanford U. and UC-Davis, ’07 (Mark B. Feldman and Hsuan L. Hsu “Race, Environment, and Representation” Discourse  Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, Spring & Fall 2007)
Du Bois's later works also push toward an "anti-pastoral"6 conception of the environment: "….. environmental contestation and criticism.
Let’s go beyond eco-criticism.  This history shows how warfare and militarism are about control over resources.  Energy is the intersection between resources and human labor, providing a unique lever to pry back the forces of War and total extermination.
Mbembe, ‘03 (Senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand, 2003
[Achille, “Necropolitics,” Public Culture Volume 15 Issue 1, p. 33]
[First, we have seen a general drying-up …. provide both material and financial support.] 

Marx himself noted the link between enslavement, energy production, and the stages of industrial capitalism.  This is a built in permutation to capitalism kritiks in terms of the link to oppression and the means of resisting:  

J. Bryant, ’06 citing Marx in 1867.     (“The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity” Bryant, Joseph M., 1954The Canadian Journal of Sociology, Volume 31, Number 4, Fall 2006, pp. 403-444)

Marx’s position is unambiguous: ….. (in Chapter xxxi, Capital, Volume 1 [1867] 1967: 751). 

The best way to take into account ecological criticism, problems with capitalism, and the destruction of the environment is to reinvigorate a new sense of environmental justice based on actual people in actual places—the politics of race as the means to kritik other systems of oppression operating alongside racial inequality.
Feldman & Hsu, Stanford U. and UC-Davis, ’07 (Mark B. Feldman and Hsuan L. Hsu “Race, Environment, and Representation” Discourse  Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, Spring & Fall 2007)
Since the 1990s, environmental historians ….which brings the material facts of racial inequality to bear on conceptions of nature.

Chapter Three: We Can Produce Energy in Multiple Ways, Including Compassion.

Black feminism in the context of energy, the environment and nature is the best practice and method for creating alliances and drawing interconnections.  Such a perspective is more effective than feminism or any type of environmentalism on its own. 

Statham, U. Wisconsin, 2000 (“Environmental Awareness and Feminist Progress” Anne. NWSA Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 89-104 (Article) University of Wisconsin-Parkside)

These results support ecofeminist assertions that environmental……t direct material experience of environmental connection may be an important source of the difference. 

                                                               
There are alternatives that will emerge through a new politics of the body.
Feldman & Hsu, Stanford U. and UC-Davis, ’07 (Mark B. Feldman and Hsuan L. Hsu “Race, Environment, and Representation” Discourse  Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, Spring & Fall 2007)
Ulrich Beck, commenting on the unknowable effects of environmental risks in a globalized risk society, writes,…. global environmental and economic transformations affect local communities and individual lives.

Since man has become the worshippers
of doings of their own hands
then we have stopped living naturally
just existing by conventions
As far as I can see
We are all living mechanically
in a worldly mechanism
All from the beginning a Babylon system
pure ism and schism in Babylon system.

- Paul Gilroy ‘87