1) Aids inflicts 25.4 million people in Africa, and a steady supply of volunteers is lacking in the attempt to treat and prevent aids.
Sidi Jammeh, Senior economist at the world bank, and the chair-emeritus of the Africa society, the world bank, and the IMF) Chinua Akukwe(Board of directors for the cinsistuency of Africa), and George Haley. (former US Ambassador to Gambia) “The need for an international HIV/AIDS volunteer services corps for Africa” January 27 2005. worldpress.org
“although remarkable successes have been … or two years in the first instance”
PLAN: The United States federal government should create and provide all necessary spport for an International Volunteer HIV/AIDS Services Corps that would operate throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Advantage two is Ethics
1) Our exploitation of Africa is based on a long history of constructing Africans abstractly as inferior.
Curtis A. Keim, Moravian College; Westview Press, 1999, “Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and inventions of the American Mind.”
“during much of American history, racism … to mind when we hear the word Afirca.”
2) Without direct exposure to and contact with the other we are in solidarity with, we homogenize struggles into a representation of our own desire for intensity, but do nothing to help any real individual or cause.
Bruckner 1986 (Pascal, Writer and Activist, The tears of the white man: Compassion as Contempt)
“How is it possible to think about… never find anyone like them in the real world.”
4) Volunteering generates a face-to-face contact with the other that creates an incalculable relation to alterity. It recreates the participants as ethical citizens who feel a selfless and unconditional responsibility to the other.
Cloke et al 2k7 (Paul Cloke, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Sarah Hohnson, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, Jon May, Department of Gegraphy, Queen Mary, University of London, Ethical Citizenship?, Geoforum, Volume 38, Issue 6, November pgs. 1089 – 1101)
“we want to argue, with others …. Some form of extraordinary citizenship.”
5) The Unique nature of volunteering creates flexibility that allows individual ethos to override the co-opting nature of state and organizational ethics.
Same Cloke et Al site.
“A further finding from this research … any organization set of ethos ever could.”
6) Simply criticizing our representation of the other is not sufficient. Direct political advocacy is key to solvency.
Same GUPTA and FURGUSON evidence, cite above.
“what is needed, then, is more … popular perceptions of “foreigners” and “aliens.”
7) We have an infinite, non calculable responsibility toward the other which demarcates the subjective grounds for the possibility of experience.
David Campbell, Professor of International Politics, University of Newcastle, MORAL SPACES, 1999, ed. Michael J. Shapiro, p 51
‘levinas’s thought radically refigures… in contrast to autonomous freedom”
1AC round 1 v La Costa Canyon
Observation one inherency1) Aids inflicts 25.4 million people in Africa, and a steady supply of volunteers is lacking in the attempt to treat and prevent aids.
Sidi Jammeh, Senior economist at the world bank, and the chair-emeritus of the Africa society, the world bank, and the IMF) Chinua Akukwe(Board of directors for the cinsistuency of Africa), and George Haley. (former US Ambassador to Gambia) “The need for an international HIV/AIDS volunteer services corps for Africa” January 27 2005. worldpress.org
“although remarkable successes have been … or two years in the first instance”
PLAN: The United States federal government should create and provide all necessary spport for an International Volunteer HIV/AIDS Services Corps that would operate throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Advantage two is Ethics
1) Our exploitation of Africa is based on a long history of constructing Africans abstractly as inferior.
Curtis A. Keim, Moravian College; Westview Press, 1999, “Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and inventions of the American Mind.”
“during much of American history, racism … to mind when we hear the word Afirca.”
2) Without direct exposure to and contact with the other we are in solidarity with, we homogenize struggles into a representation of our own desire for intensity, but do nothing to help any real individual or cause.
Bruckner 1986 (Pascal, Writer and Activist, The tears of the white man: Compassion as Contempt)
“How is it possible to think about… never find anyone like them in the real world.”
4) Volunteering generates a face-to-face contact with the other that creates an incalculable relation to alterity. It recreates the participants as ethical citizens who feel a selfless and unconditional responsibility to the other.
Cloke et al 2k7 (Paul Cloke, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Sarah Hohnson, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, Jon May, Department of Gegraphy, Queen Mary, University of London, Ethical Citizenship?, Geoforum, Volume 38, Issue 6, November pgs. 1089 – 1101)
“we want to argue, with others …. Some form of extraordinary citizenship.”
5) The Unique nature of volunteering creates flexibility that allows individual ethos to override the co-opting nature of state and organizational ethics.
Same Cloke et Al site.
“A further finding from this research … any organization set of ethos ever could.”
6) Simply criticizing our representation of the other is not sufficient. Direct political advocacy is key to solvency.
Same GUPTA and FURGUSON evidence, cite above.
“what is needed, then, is more … popular perceptions of “foreigners” and “aliens.”
7) We have an infinite, non calculable responsibility toward the other which demarcates the subjective grounds for the possibility of experience.
David Campbell, Professor of International Politics, University of Newcastle, MORAL SPACES, 1999, ed. Michael J. Shapiro, p 51
‘levinas’s thought radically refigures… in contrast to autonomous freedom”