Briefing Document: Regulating Trust – Who will be on the Vetting Database?
In October this year, the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act comes into force – requiring all adults who work or volunteer with children to register on a vetting database. Yet the rules on who – and who will not – be on the…
Regulating Trust: Who will be on the Vetting Database?
Attention Please: Manifesto Club photobook
Attention Please is a photobook of unnecessary, absurd and patronising safety warnings in public space, submitted to us by members of the public over 2008-9. The collection contains submissions from all over the world, and also from individuals including the Turner prize-winning…
Robbed by the Police: Alcohol confiscation and the hyperregulation of public space
The Manifesto Club has launched a report on the police abuse of alcohol confiscation powers, Robbed by the Police: Alcohol confiscation and the hyperregulation of public space. Alcohol control zones were supposedly created to tackle serious public disorder – yet police officers…
26 July – Freedom to Move, Belfast
The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive procedures to get their visa, and then…
Sportsday Against Vetting: testimonies
This sports day will be an informal gathering of parents, adult volunteers and children in a suburban London park. It is also – unfortunately – an act of defiance against the growing mound of rules and regulations that threaten such ordinary events. The sports day is in celebration of spontaneous volunteering – and against all the checks, codes and licences that are now required for anyone who wants to help out with children in their area. Such everyday gatherings in local parks are key to children’s development and to community life. In particular, at the Manifesto Club we oppose the government’s upcoming…
Protest Picnic Against Booze Bans – Brighton
Brighton members of the Manifesto Club will hold a picnic to protest against the city council’s regulation of drinking and social life, and to speak out for Brighton as a free and fun city. Time: From 1pm on Saturday 27 June Place:…
Policing Booze on the Beach – Brighton
Brighton Manifesto Club members are challenging the city council to a debate on its booze control zones, which mean frequent confiscation of alcohol from city residents. This event will also launch a report, based on interviews with Brighton residents, showing the impact…
UK Arts and Culture: Cancelled, by Order of the Home Office
The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies. The Manifesto Club has launched a report, UK Arts and Culture: Cancelled, by Order of the Home Office, detailing…
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