| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TH regrets the rise of social media as a primary source of news distribution | |
| 2 | TH supports Barack Obama’s statements that emphasise African- Americans taking individual responsibility for improving their own position in life | |
| 3 | THW create state-run centres where individuals can purchase and consume psychedelic* drugs *drugs whose primary effect is to alter cognition and perception e.g. LSD and Magic Mushrooms | |
| 4 | TH supports strong government intervention to prevent gentrification* *process when significant numbers of wealthier people move to a poor area | |
| 5 | THBT the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra should regularly play the works of Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner was a 19th century anti-semitic German composer. His music was favoured by the Nazis and played at the Nuremburg rallies, and reportedly at Nazi death camps. When Wagner’s music was played in Israel, it lead to protests and it remains controversial. Motion: THB |
| 6 | TH regrets the mass commercialisation of football | |
| 7 | TH supports Sanctuary Cities in the United States | A ‘sanctuary city’, for example San Francisco, does not allow police or city employees (e.g. educators, social, and healthcare workers), to inquite about an individual’s immigration status. These cities do not co-operate with the federal government’s controls on illegal immigrants. Motion: TH |
| 8 | THBT Latin American states should provide extensive material support for a military coup against the Venezualan government | |
| 9 | THBT the European Union should fund satirical* publications in its member states that target far-right political parties * the use of humour and exaggeration to criticize | |
| ESL_Quarters | THBT Western States should fund the spread of atheism in Iraq through provision of education, health care and welfare | |
| ESL_Semis | TH regrets the safe space movement’s attempts to significantly limit speech on university campuses | The growing safe space movement has used both social pressure and direct action to achieve its aims. These include, but are not limited to banning certain speakers, and limiting exposure to controversial, and potentially triggering topics. Motion: TH |
| ESL_Final | THBT western nations should support breakaway states in former Soviet Union (e.g. East Ukraine or South Ossetia) after free and fair referendum. | |
| Open_Partial_Octos | TH supports BRICS* countries creating alternatives to the current international economic institutions (i.e. the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation) * Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa | |
| Open_Quarters | THW require the economic policies of political parties to be approved by an independent panel of experts before being used in campaigns | |
| Open_Semis | TH supports Iran’s extension of the Sharia principle of “an eye for an eye” to the victims of acid attacks | Recently there has been a high number of acid attacks against women, either due to personal feuds or for their non-conformity to Islamic values. / Iranian courts that are governed by Sharia law ruled that victims have the right to choose to blind their attacker by putting acid in their eye(s). Motion: TH |
| Open_Final | THW nationalize and provide public access to the Metadata being gathered by online multinational companies. |
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