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Observation 1 is Inherency
Internet censorship in Yemen is preventing the free flow of ideas, economic growth, and ultimately, the transition to a democratic state.
Novak 8
(Jane, Yemen expert and analyst, advocate for Yemeni journalists, “internet censorship in Yemen,” http://janenovak.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/internet-censorship-in-yemen/, March 6)
And the recent revolutions in the MENA region will only spark an increase in censorship.
Youth For Change '11 (Let's Talk Revolution: Live chat with young MENA region revolutionaries, 5/28/11, http://www.tigurl.org/images/resources/tool/docs/3137.pdf)
Unlike Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, Yemen lacks international support. Action now is key.
Youth For Change '11 (Let's Talk Revolution: Live chat with young MENA region revolutionaries, 5/28/11, http://www.tigurl.org/images/resources/tool/docs/3137.pdf)
And the censorship technology in Yemen comes from primarily U.S. and Canadian companies. U.S. action on the issue sends a signal to stop exporting net censorship.
York 11 (Jillian C, “The Booming Business of Internet Censorship.” 3/29/11 http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011329113450125509.html)
Observation 2 are the Advantages
Advantage 1 is Movements-
Scenario One is General Movements
Internet access is responsible for the collaboration of new ideas and new ways of thinking allows individuals to discover methods of collective action. Because these collective identities are not expressed in ideologies it allows individuals to discover the self as an active project of reinvention, solving fragmentation.
Bennett 2003 (Lance W. [Professor of political science, Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication, and director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington, Author and editor of numerous books including, Mediated Politics] “New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism”, Contesting Media Power, Rowman & Littlefield Publichsers, Inc.)
Social media allows for democratic protests to be modeled by other countries
Williamson 11’ <Andy Williamson, Director of Digital Democracy at the Hansard Society, Global Centre for ITC in Parliament, “Social Media and the Arab Spring”, April 2011, http://www.ictparliament.org/node/3444>
Social movements are necessary to solve multiple extinction scenarios
Sloboda 06 (“Saving Us And The Planet” June 19, 2006 John Sloboda is executive director of the Oxford Research Group (ORG), associate researcher of www.iraqbodycount.net, and coordinator of www.PeaceUK.net, http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/saving-us-and-planet)
Scenario Two is the Women’s Rights Movement
When they have access to it, Yemeni’s use social media to oppose the state, unify populations and promote women’s rights.
Nasser 11
Internet access in the MENA allows for gender transgressions that have productive offline effects.
Wheeler 6 (Deborah L., Professor at the US Naval Academy, “Empowering Publics,” Oxford Internet Institute, Research Report No. 11, July)
Cyberspace presents a unique forum to deconstruct patriarchy.
Mojab 2001 (Shahrzad, “The Politics of ‘Cyberfeminism’ In the Middle East: The Case of Kurdish Women,” http://www.utoronto.ca/wwdl/publications/english/cyberfeminism_article.pdf)
Patriarchy makes oppression and extinction inevitable.
Warren & Cady 94 (Karen and Duane, Feminism and Peace: Seeing Connections, Hypatia, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring, p4-20)
Advantage Two- Poverty
Censorship makes addressing poverty issues a pipe dream. An open and independent media allows enhances the voice of the nation’s poorest and generates more informed choices about economic needs.
Norris 8
Pippa Norris, McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ; Director, Democratic Governance Group, UNDP, 2008, “The Role of the Free Press in Promoting Democratization, Good Governance and Human Development”, http://www.internews.org/pubs/gfmd/mediamatters.pdf
Poverty is the equivalent of a thermonuclear war on the poor every year.
James Gilligan 2000 (Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, 2000 edition, Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, p. 195-196)
Plan: The United States federal government should disseminate shadow Internet and mobile phone systems throughout Yemen.
Observation 3 is Solvency
U.S. is leading the effort to deploy shadow internet and mobile phone systems as well as research to create more effective technology
Glanz and Markoff 11
JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF, senior writer for The New York Times, writes for the paper's science section , The New York Times, June 12, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?_r=1
U.S. has empirical solvency- they built the secret networks for the opposition in Syria and Libya
Economics News Paper. Com 11
Economics News Paper.com, “U.S. government, America’s secret underground networks”, July 14, 2011, http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy/german/u-s-government-americas-secret-underground-networks-33144.html
Observation 4 is Your Disad
Our focus on structural violence in the everyday is necessary to prevent a politics of ceasing crisis from flashpoint to flashpoint. This mode of being reproduces militarism and perpetuates the structural violence of peacetime militarism.
Cuomo 1996 (Chris, Dept. of Philo @ U. of Cincinatti Hypatia Fall Vol. 11, Iss. 4, p. 30)
AND – We control the one-way uniqueness street to non-violence – it’s inevitable in a world with a focus on war as an event. Only an affirmation of positive peace gives any hope of stopping the conditions that make war necessary.
Kim 1987 (Ha Poong, Philosophy Department, Eastern Illinois University, USA Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol. 18, No. 1)
Observation 5 is Your Criticism
Access to the Internet is needed to provide reconceptualizations of alternatives to current critical theories that are workable solutions
Harry Cleaver, 2000 (“The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric*” This paper was prepared for an issue of the Journal of International Affairs on technology and foreign affairs. Harry Cleaver, http://www.uff.br/mestcii/cleaver.htm#*
We must work through the internet-it will be the prime site of future political battles-abandoning it makes oppression inevitable
Kahn and Kellner ‘4 (Richard Kahn is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA who has recently written the entry on "Internet and Cyberculture" for the forthcoming George Ritzer (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including, most recently, Media Spectacle and From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/oppositionalpoliticstechnology.pdf
Political participation by students is crucial to break down the boundary between the political and the apolitical – otherwise we can never break down the political body of sphere inundating the public sphere
KULYNYCH 97 (JESSICA, Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation Polity, Winter 1997 v30 n2)
