EU Phrasebook: SPECIAL OFFER

The Manifesto Club has published a ‘Phrasebook’, sponsored by Libertas, to mock the anti-democratic EU. The EU Phrasebook: 27 Ways to Say ‘No Doesn’t Really Mean No’ documents 27 different ways in which politicians from all 27 EU countries sought to avoid…

Licence to Live

This is a transcript of a speech given by Josie Appleton, at the launch of Freedom Summer, ‘What next for Freedom?’, on 14 May 2009 There is no doubt that, over the past few years, there has been a fundamental shift in…

19 MAY — FREEDOM OF THE STREETS? BOOZE AND THE REGULATION OF THE SOCIAL LIFE — SALON HUDDERSFIELD

19 May – Freedom of the Streets? Booze and the regulation of social life – Salon, Huddersfield – Josie Appleton will speak to the Huddersfield Salon about bans on happy hours and public drinking, and what this means for social life. Partner campaign: Manifesto Club Campaign Against Booze Bans. Time: 6.30 to 8.30 Venue: The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield

2 July – Manifesto Clubnight – Attention Please Launch

Speakers: Tom Mower, author of the Attention Please project, and one third of the design practice St. Pierre & Miquelon Clare Cumberlidge, founding director of General Public Agency Tim Abrahams, associate editor, Blueprint magazine Dolan Cummings, co-founder, Manifesto Club When: doors open 7pm. Discussion begins 8pm Where: El Ryan’s, 56 Carter Lane, London, EC4V 5EA. See map Cost: Free for Manifesto Club members; £5 non-members. Join the Manifesto Club. Download a poster for the event.

14 MAY — MANIFESTO CLUBNIGHT, LAUNCH OF FREEDOM SUMMER: WHAT NEXT FOR FREEDOM?

14 May – Manifesto Clubnight, Launch of Freedom Summer: What Next for Freedom? Our May Club Night will be the official start of Freedom Summer, a pan-European series of events standing up against the Hyperregulation of everyday life. Following on from the discussion begun by libertarians and freedom campaigners at the Convention on Modern Liberty in February, we will kick-start Freedom Summer by asking What Next for Freedom? What are the key limits to freedom today, and how should we begin to organise against them? We have invited a range of civil libertarians from different campaigns and perspectives to debate the key…