Dealing with the Remaining Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay: Group 1-Progress Report 1

Ayesha Syed

Claire Glezer

Preston Keiffer

Rachel Grossfeld

Greg Baumel

            Dealing with the Remaining Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Questions to Address:

As our group’s topic deals with the institution of Guantanamo Bay, we have chosen two main questions surrounding the controversy to address in our action campaign. Primarily, we hope to discuss and reach a conclusion about whether the institution should be completely shut down resulting in the return of the remaining detainees to their respective countries. The debate about whether the detainees should be released to their countries arises from the notion that detainees of Guantanamo Bay are not entitled to all human rights or protections stated in the Geneva Conventions. Subsequently, the second issue our group would like to address is whether it is anyone’s decision to strip the prisoners of rights they are essentially entitled to.

Resources:

 In order to address these issues, our group will explore both electronic resources and book resources. Our hope is enhance our presentation with video clips and graphic images of occurrences at the institution to convey the severity of what Guantanamo Bay has caused and is still causing.

Developing the Campaign:

As of now, each group member has been assigned the responsibility of completing a progress report. Everyone in the group is responsible for accumulating research on the institution and posting it on our blog as they come across it. After there is a firm understanding of the issues at hand, we plan to synthesize the information and claim our collective or individual stance on the two main issues we will address in the campaign. We will then build our campaign using a PowerPoint presentation that contains graphic images, videos, and interviews with the prisoners, as well written information obtained from our research. Also, we will present the counterarguments to our positions on the issues and explain why we are not in accordance with them.  We believe the best way to build our campaign is with pertinent factual information as well as visual aids that will appeal to the ethos of our audience.