Last year the Manifesto Club ran Attention Please, an online photo album which captured the unnecessary, absurd and patronising safety warnings in public space. We asked our members and supporters to send examples of the kinds of ludicrous signage we all encounter in our everyday lives. By turning our cameras on questionable safety warnings, we began to reveal the extent to which safety regulations affect the look and feel of public space around the world.

We are delighted to now bring a selection of those contributions together in published form. Attention Please will be launched at a Club Night on 2 July. Project convenor and author Tom Mower will introduce the project and a selection of submissions. He will be joined by other speakers to reflect upon the regulation of public space, and what we can do about it.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase. You can also buy Attention Please online, with a credit or debit card.

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 are confiscating alcohol from people who are doing absolutely nothing wrong. This is a gross intrusion on public freedoms - and a big spoiler of summer picnics in parks and on beaches across the country.

Download Robbed by the Police. See the report in the Times.

This report is launched at Brighton discussion and picnic against the booze bans, on 25 and 27 June.

The Manifesto Club's Campaign Against Booze Bans launched with a protest picnic in Hyde Park, in August 2008.

The Manifesto Club’s Freedom Summer is a pan-European series of events between May and September 2009. Together we will stand up against the hyperregulation of everyday life, and celebrate autonomous spaces for people to collaborate, discuss, or just enjoy life - away from the state.

A programme is below; come to the events that are up your street. And do propose and organise events of your own – a picnic, a discussion, or an exhibition. Any ideas, email here.

Freedom Summer 2009: What’s on