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Hurricane winds speed faster,
As the NYC zone’s a disaster
And the rain tears apart the plaster
With no sign of an oleaster.

People’s lives fly away
With the people’s water
And Electricity.
People fray and pray
To end this horrid day.

But we wake up,
Everything’s destroyed,
No water in our cup
We’re still in a void.  

Days later there is still no power
But in that large tower
I see a glimmer of hope
But that does nothing to help us cope.  

Days pass
With no gas
And still our glass
Has no mass.

The financial districts lights
Left the poor in the dark,
Like in Jackson heights,
Which is only a remark
On the energy inequality
Which we increase in quality.  

Debaters we have a message

Debate has excluded the oppressed
In favor of education
Which adds us to the very best
Of the oppressive situation.

You may say we need gravitas
For when we enter congress
But do you really want us
To add to the current unfairness.

We have gravitas
But we are Thrasymachus
With immoralist policies
Why can’t we be like Socrates? 

Have the discussions of the oppressed ever permeated the thick fabric of fiat
That we use to keep ourselves insulated, secured against any meaningful exchange
That we can have with those that are less fortunate than us?

Next, we use a story from Bullard talking about energy inequality
Bullard ‘11
Robert D. Bullard is the Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston. Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States February 9th, 2011http:dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/

Recent proposals to jump-……………. targeted for poor and people of color.

This year the resolution calls us to address the policies of energy policy in the United States. However, our affirmation of energy requires an investment not in fiatted monetary terms but instead an investment in what lies beneath the streets, beneath the flickering pulse of the bright lights and big cities we’re taught to see as centers of American liberty and freedom
Abu-Jamal 98 (Mumia Abu-Jamal 1998 “A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE,”  9/19/98, http://www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm)

It has often been observed ………………….thermonuclear war, or genocide on the weak and poor every year of every decade, throughout the world." [Gilligan, p. 196]

AND - We need to challenge the current invisibility of structural violence amongst our communities. The normal functioning of debate, much like our current functioning of modern American society, constructs a methodological distinction between groups of people, deeming them a part of the in crowd or the out crowd...Discussions are either “topical” or “not-topical” – relevant or irrelevant. This constant issue excludes the oppressed from our discussions, further distancing the oppressed from ourselves, contributing to the systematic violence present in the status-quo. This is what leads an invisible genocide committed against the weak and poor throughout the world. We propose an inclusionary approach through our relationships within our debate community, debate's discursive potential, and the appreciation and acceptance of diverse ways of viewing the world, including the world in which we live in and the world in which we debate in, in order to discontinue the invisibility of structural violence.
Winter and Leighton in 1999 (Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century.  Pg 4-5)

Finally, to recognize the operation of structural ………………..citizens to reduce it.

Therefore the Role of The Ballot for this debate is to endorse a political discussion emphasizing the voices of the oppressed people affected by energy policy as we debate this year’s resolution. Your ballot acts as an endorsement of a brand of politics capable of challenging the violent norms of the status quo
The failure to incorporate the lives of those who are oppressed by our politics can only lead to more oppressive politics… and eventually the failure of our politics.
Friere 70 (Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 1, educator and director of the Department of Cultural  Extension of Recife University,1970)

For the truly …………….intentions notwithstanding

Failure to interrogate the way political structures makes our impacts inevitable
Cutler 2K – Professor of Political Science at Victoria
(A. Claire, Strange Power, Ed. Thomas Lawton, James Rosenau, and Amy Verdun, p. 161-2)

We might begin with the ……………………..of constraints on human autonomy’ (Linklater 1986: 308).3

Our affirmation of the resolution escapes the politics of business as usual - opening up agency that resists the sovereigns command over all life and beauty. We resist that which robs our political projects of agency and commitment.
Wadiwel 02 (Dinesh Joesph, “Cows and Sovereignty: Biopower and Animal Life” Borderlands E-Journal Vol.1 #2)
But such a political program has …………..animal life shared by both entities.

We must interrogate both objective and subjective forms of structural violence. Any other method of communication fails to identify the root of the problem and makes error replication inevitable. The invisibility of structural violence has justified the ruthless expansion of Western ideology, the invasion of Iraq, torture chambers and is the root of exploitation and oppression
Howie 11 (Luke, Department of Behavioral Studies, Monash University, member of the Global Terrorism Research Centre, International Journal of Zizek Studies Volume 5 Number 2, “They Were Created by Man … and They Have a Plan: Subjective and Objective Violence in Battlestar Galactica and the War on Terror” pg. 2-4)
Žižek’s descriptions of the distinction between ……………….role in preventing terrorism. 

Only by recognizing the ways in which we are negatively affected by energy while simultaneously acknowledging the ways in which our advancement in such spaces are at the expense of others can we purposefully and effectively challenge the systems that have created and allows structural violence both in the past and the status quo.
Henze 2000 (Brent R.Henze 2000 “Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects.” Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia)

Though I argue against …………………particular effect of power.

Before we start cross-x we wish to return ourselves to the discussion of the poor. Help for one another goes beyond any material condition in the world. Voting affirmative understands our advocacy as not only a call of material responsibility but also that of spiritual responsibility. Politics minus an understanding of non-material conditions lead to psychic genocide.
hooks 2000 (TY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, PROFESSOR, THEN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, 1995–2004; BEREA COLLEGE, BEREA, KY, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR-IN-RESIDENCE, BEGINNING 2004. CO-FOUNDER, HAMBONE LITERARY MAGAZINE. 2000 [bELL,WHERE WE STAND: CLASS MATTERS, P. 129-130)

The poor ……………. of the spirit.