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4WardEverUK

Two Decades On – A continued legacy remembers Mikey Powell

Mikey’s Mother in 2013 – Clarissa Powell : Image Credit Ken Fero (Migrant Media)

source: 4WardEverUK
published: 6 September 2018

The 7th September 2023 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the brutal and needless death of father of three, Michael Lloyd Powell (commonly known as Mikey, and a cousin of the renowned poet and writer, Dr Benjamin Zephaniah) at the hands of West Midlands Police in Lozells, Birmingham. Mikey was experiencing a psychotic episode.

Mikey’s 20th year commemoration will be marked in a joint event to be held at The Legacy Centre in Birmingham on 25 November 2023. The event, entitled 40:20:01, combines a celebration of INQUEST’s 40th year, a dedication to Mikey’s life, as well as the first ever Memorial Family Fund Annual Gala Activists Awards.

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4WardEverUK

From Ferguson to Birmingham: UK Solidarity Tour

Ferguson to Birminghamsource: 4WardEver Campaign
published: 16 Dec 2014

Campaign group, 4WardEver UK, is supporting and assisting in organising a series of national events to demonstrate unity and solidarity of campaigns fighting against the injustice of police custody deaths in Britain and the United States.

Defend the Right to Protest supported by 4WardEver UK, BirminghamStrong Justice 4 All, BEMA, Campaign 4 Justice for Kingsley Burrell; with the generous support of The Drum Arts Centre presents ‘From Ferguson to Birmingham‘.

The Reverend Osagyefo Sekou – centrally involved in protests in Ferguson, Missouri, to demand justice for Michael Brown – will be visiting the UK in January for a solidarity tour.

He will speak alongside Tippa Naphtali, Kedisha Brown-Burrell, Maxie Hayles, Rev Bryan Scott, Jan Butler, The Webster family and others who have suffered injustice at the hands of the state and are fighting to end the culture of impunity that protects the police.

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Larry Fedja

‘Community Monitors’ to keep watch on policing of Birmingham’s Simmer Down Festival

police-watchprovided by: Netpol
published: 9 July 2014

On 20 July 2014, a team of trained independent ‘Community Monitors’ will observe and record the actions of police officers and security staff during Birmingham’s popular Simmer Down Reggae Festival.

Community scrutiny of the policing operation in and around Handsworth Park, where the festival takes place, is part of Netpol’s Community Monitoring Project and has been organised alongside 4WardEver UK, Birmingham Ethnic Minorities Association (BEMA) and BirminghamStrong Justice 4 All.

Funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation enables Netpol to pilot three community monitoring projects in different parts of the country, which aim to increase police accountability over the treatment of individuals and the process of local decision-making in each of the three pilot areas.

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