AJ Tracey, Craig David, Annie Lennox and more have joined the #Justice4Windrush campaign.
The campaign aims to fight for the rights of those impacted by the Windrush scandal, in which thousands of Black and Brown people who were entitled to live in the UK were threatened with deportation. Around 15,000 people are eligible for compensation as a result of their treatment, but as of January 2024, only 13.8% of those eligible had received any compensation.
The Home Office has refused to give applicants legal aid – making the path to justice even more difficult – while just £73.58 million of an allocated £200-500 million has been awarded to victims.
The #Justice4Windrush campaign continues, with a new campaign video featuring an exclusive re-recording of ‘Why?’ by Annie Lennox. A host of famous faces have lent their weight to the push for justice, including AJ Tracey, Craig David, Don Letts, Jay Blades, and more.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence is helped with the campaign, with an open letter being delivered to both Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer.
Annie Lennox says…
“With #Justice4Windrush, we want to put the issue of Windrush front and centre, to ensure that the Windrush generation are seen, heard and healed. Bigotry, hatred and racism have pervaded the British establishment for too long. We need to put an immediate stop to the tragic injustice of this Home Office Scandal. Windrush victims deserve nothing less.”
Actor and campaigner Colin McFarlane says…
“The Home Office scandal that impacted the Windrush generation is not over. Yet 90% of the country think it is. In 2022, a leaked internal report* commissioned by the Home Office revealed that, ‘during the period 1950-1981, every single piece of immigration or citizenship legislation was designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK.”
“2012’s hostile environment policy has exacerbated this institutional racism, resulting in over 15,000 victims and rising. The woeful 2019 compensation scheme has added insult to injury and merely prolonged the trauma and is yet another illustration of decades long discrimination by the Home Office against migrants of colour. We need justice for the Windrush generation, now.”
Watch the new film from #Justice4Windrush below.
