We are finishing up our affirmative wave today. Here are the affs that we will produce:
Digital Divide/Broadband Aff: Layne Kirshon
Grants to increase broadband access in poor communities.
Multiple advantage areas.
Legal Services Aff Area: Vinay Sridharan, Thomas X, Chloe Chen
This affirmative group is currently producing two distinct affirmatives relating to restrictions placed on funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
One area will lift the restriction on attorney’s receiving federal funding from filing and arguing class action lawsuits. This affirmative has a large poverty advantage, an economy advantage centered on the housing sector, and a free speech advantage.
The second area lifts all restrictions placed on the Legal Service’s Corporations use of non-federal funds. The advantages are free speech, public-private cooperation (multiple scenarios), poverty, and economy.
Immigration Aff Area: Kaavya Ramesh, William Stokes, Rachel Katzoff
We are expanding on the pre-institute affirmative in addition to writing a somewhat critical version that draws on Derrida and Levinas.
The other immigration affirmative relates to the provision of health services in immigrant detention centers. The advantages include human rights credibility, US-Mexico relations, among others.
Needle Exchange Funding: McKenzie Klein, Madhu Ramankutty: Lifts the federal ban on funding needle exchange programs. AIDs, Human Rights credibility/Soft Power
Veterans: David Manella, Mindy Huynh
School Lunch: Damiyr Davis, Jess Mitchell
Abortion Funding/Hyde Amendment: Ashish Mittal, Danny Bernick, David Herman
