The Manifesto Club’s ‘Campaign Against Vetting’ will host an informal sports day in a central London park, for volunteer adults, parents and their children. This is a day for fun games and races – and also to celebrate adult volunteering and informal…
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…
Cabaret Without Borders – talks and performances against the Home Office’s new controls on visiting artists and academics. This is part of the Manifesto Club’s summer events series, Freedom Summer. See the Video of the Cabaret Without Borders Event, on WorldBytes. This…
Below is the latest outline of plans for the summer – with more to come. To subscribe to the Freedom Summer newsletter, email info@manifestoclub.com Download a Freedom Summer flyer or a poster. MAY Thursday 14 May – Manifesto Clubnight, Launch of Freedom…
CLUBNIGHT: EUROPEANS AGAINST THE EU Last year, an EU Council meeting decreed that Irish voters must vote again on the Lisbon Treaty. This June, the European elections will throw the operations of Brussels open to public debate across the continent. A critique…
On 11 December, EU leaders will meet to find what they call a ‘solution’ to the ‘Irish problem’ – Irish voters’ rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in their June referendum. The Manifesto Club will be taking our campaign for popular democracy to the heart of Brussels – to expose the contemptuous attitude of European elites towards their publics, and to start to build a cross-European alliance for freedom and against bureaucracy. 8 DECEMBER, NO MEANS NO! – MEETING IN BRUSSELS We are delighted to be co-organising a discussion – with the think-tank, Open Europe – in the centre of Brussels, three days…
Checkmate: Has vetting gone too far? Soon it will be a crime for a non-CRB-checked father to help out at his son’s football team. Already, criminal records vetting is putting adults off volunteering; some long-time cricket coaches and choir leaders have resigned…