Plan Text – 100,000,000 band-aids to sub-Saharan Africa
1ac w/ cites
QUESTION ONE: YOU MEAN THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN AFRICA?
THIRTY THOUSAND CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY OF PREVENTABLE CAUSES
ActionAid Report, 2006 http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/69_1_real_aid.pdf
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity … all deflate the value of aid.
HIV/AIDS worse than war and famine
Nelson Mandela, 2005 XIIIth International AIDS Conference http://www.bridges-of-hope.org/index.php
Let us not equivocate:… diseases as malaria."
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IS WORSE THAN WAR
James Gilligan, Dept Psychiatry Harvard Med School, VIOLENCE REFLECTIONS ON OUR DEADLIEST EPIDEMIC 2000 p 195-196
The 14 to 18 million deaths a year…every decade, throughout the world.
So what can we do to solve the death and destruction, the wars and the genocide?
Plan: The United States federal government shall substantially increase health assistance by sending 100 million band-aids to the topic–defined area. Financing and enforcement guaranteed.
Question two: Why band-aids?
When politicians believe Africa is hopeless, we use band-aids instead of solutions
Mark Ford of East Fallowfield, PA 1996 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/november96/zaire_11-15.html
In his later years, when asked…addressed with some permanency?
Social activitist and musicial Bob Geldoff named his project “Live aid” as recognition of a political wound to Africa – that band-aids won’t mend Africa, only political solutions will
Bob Geldof, The Rolling Stone, 2004 http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ultravox/articles/story/6654479/geldof_rings_in_christmas
Live Aid was a key moment … band-aids won't mend it. But politics will.
For any number of problems, Africa needs cures, not band-aids –
Haimanot, Washington, DC BBC News, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4617397.stm 15 June, 2005,
What Africa needs is a cure… globe will be flocking back to better Africa.
When Africa accepts band-aids, leaders only look to external solutions
Avittey, 2006 George B.N., Ph.D. President, The Free Africa Foundation, Distinguished Economist, American University, April http://www.freeafrica.org/html/body_president.html
While external factors have played a role…allies looked only one way -- at the external factors.
Band-aids won’t stop genocide – need political will
Nicholas Kristoff, November 2006 “Bandages and Bayonetts” http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2006/11/bandages_and_ba.html
After more than three years of such brutality… this first genocide of the 21st century to drag on and on.
Sarcasm is powerful debate– remembered by audience better than other rhetoric
Kelly Power, 2000 http:
Calhoun Aff
Round # 2
vs Team: McDonogh
Judge: John Rains III
Plan Text – 100,000,000 band-aids to sub-Saharan Africa
1ac w/ cites
QUESTION ONE: YOU MEAN THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN AFRICA?THIRTY THOUSAND CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY OF PREVENTABLE CAUSES
ActionAid Report, 2006 http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/69_1_real_aid.pdf
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity … all deflate the value of aid.
HIV/AIDS worse than war and famine
Nelson Mandela, 2005 XIIIth International AIDS Conference http://www.bridges-of-hope.org/index.php
Let us not equivocate:… diseases as malaria."
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IS WORSE THAN WAR
James Gilligan, Dept Psychiatry Harvard Med School, VIOLENCE REFLECTIONS ON OUR DEADLIEST EPIDEMIC 2000 p 195-196
The 14 to 18 million deaths a year…every decade, throughout the world.
So what can we do to solve the death and destruction, the wars and the genocide?
Plan: The United States federal government shall substantially increase health assistance by sending 100 million band-aids to the topic–defined area. Financing and enforcement guaranteed.
Question two: Why band-aids?
When politicians believe Africa is hopeless, we use band-aids instead of solutions
Mark Ford of East Fallowfield, PA 1996 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/november96/zaire_11-15.html
In his later years, when asked…addressed with some permanency?
Social activitist and musicial Bob Geldoff named his project “Live aid” as recognition of a political wound to Africa – that band-aids won’t mend Africa, only political solutions will
Bob Geldof, The Rolling Stone, 2004 http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ultravox/articles/story/6654479/geldof_rings_in_christmas
Live Aid was a key moment … band-aids won't mend it. But politics will.
For any number of problems, Africa needs cures, not band-aids –
Haimanot, Washington, DC BBC News, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4617397.stm 15 June, 2005,
What Africa needs is a cure… globe will be flocking back to better Africa.
When Africa accepts band-aids, leaders only look to external solutions
Avittey, 2006 George B.N., Ph.D. President, The Free Africa Foundation, Distinguished Economist, American University, April http://www.freeafrica.org/html/body_president.html
While external factors have played a role…allies looked only one way -- at the external factors.
Band-aids won’t stop genocide – need political will
Nicholas Kristoff, November 2006 “Bandages and Bayonetts” http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2006/11/bandages_and_ba.html
After more than three years of such brutality… this first genocide of the 21st century to drag on and on.
Sarcasm is powerful debate– remembered by audience better than other rhetoric
Kelly Power, 2000 http: