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We welcome the new coalition’s promise to review and scale back the vetting and barring scheme. We want to push this further - to a pledge to scrap the vetting database for good. This Manifesto Club night will be a gathering for all those who have been involved with our Campaign Against Vetting over the past three years - to analyse the growth and meaning of vetting, and to share views on how over-cautious child protection regulation can be taken on. If you only make one civil liberties meeting this summer, this should be it. With a new government, and a month before the vetting database is due to launch, now is the time to forge ourselves as a lobby and make ourselves heard. When: Tuesday 29 June, doors open 7.00pm (debate starts at 7.30); 24 June meeting - Hyperregulation and the Bully State We are co-hosting a meeting as part of The Free Society's Voices of Freedom June debate series. Our session is on ‘Hyper-regulation and the Bully State’, Thursday June 24, 6-8pm. Chaired by James Panton (Manifesto Club); speakers include Josie Appleton (Manifesto Club), Simon Clark (director, The Free Society), Philip Johnston (Daily Telegraph and author, Bad Laws: An Explosive Analysis of Britain’s Petty Rules, Health and Safety Lunacies and Madcap Laws). The Regulation of Public Photography Seminar - Monday 28 June Manifesto Club member and MA art student Daisy Jones is organising a seminar on the regulation of public photography, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Speakers include Julian Stallabrass (lecturer in contemporary art) and the Manifesto Club’s Josie Appleton. This will be a chance for an open-ended discussion about how and why photography is being restricted – themes raised in our publication, Policing the Public Gaze. The meeting is in Seminar Room 1, Monday 28 June, 6.30pm. If you are interested in attending, or would like more details, please email Daisy. |
29 June Clubnight - ABOLISH THE VETTING DATABASE!