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Please join us for #VoWFest 2023, featuring 6 weeks of events and celebrations to mark #Windrush75 and to honour those who came to be known as the Windrush generation. #voicesofwindrush #pleaseshare Please click link for tickets: vowfest.eventbrite.com/
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Here is something people should know. On 13 August the government had to REINSTATE information telling Windrush victims how the Adjudicator's Office can consider complaints about how the Home Office handled their compensation claim. That information had previously been removed. Victims already have to navigate reviews, evidence and decisions from the department responsible for the scandal. Why should finding out how to complain about that department ever be made harder? Windrush victims need a system built around THEM, not around the convenience of the @ukhomeoffice. @ShabanaMahmood @10DowningStreet @JacquiMckenzie6 @DefendWindrush @WindrushJC @DawnButlerBrent @TheVoiceNews #WindrushJustice #WindrushScandal #Accountability #HumanRights #TheChase
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🖤 Honouring Professor Jason Arday at the Black British Book Festival 2026 Professor Jason Arday was set to join the Black British Book Festival 2026 as a speaker before his passing. This October, we will honour his life, his work and his extraordinary legacy with a special panel dedicated to remembering a man who broke barriers and opened doors for so many. Join the conversation: blackbritishbookfestival.com #BBBF26 #BlackBritishBookFestival #JasonArday
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Windrush victims are still waiting for justice. Now we are living through a climate where racism is again becoming louder and more open, the very people the Home Office failed are being made to feel afraid all over again. Instead of putting things right, victims are still being made to fight, explain and prove what was done to them. How many more years are we supposed to wait before the Home Office understands that delay is not justice? #Windrush #WindrushJustice #HomeOffice
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#Professor #JasonArday, the youngest Black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge, has resigned from his position with immediate effect. I will comment on #Channel4News at 7pm #AskProfGusJohn
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The Government says 81% of Windrush compensation claims have been “fully closed”. What it does not advertise is that 6,239 of those closed claims ended with no compensation or were ruled ineligible. Rejected victims are being placed into a government spreadsheet and presented to the public as progress. That is not justice. It is cruelty disguised as an achievement. @AndyBurnhamGM @ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice, explain why thousands of victims received nothing. @J4Windrush @LiverpoolAFW @AllWindrush @WinVoicesFest @WindrushPreston @TheVoiceNews @BlackBalladUK @thenerve_news @LondonEconomic @LeftFootFwd @theleaduk @novaramedia @guardian @Independent @itvnews @DailyMirror @LBC #WindrushScandal #WindrushJustice #WindrushVictims #JusticeForWindrush #GovernmentFailure #InstitutionalRacism #AccountabilityNow #UKPolitics
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Advocacy is more than speaking up—it's standing beside people when they need it most. ✊🏾❤️ #Windrush #Justice #PWGDUK #Windrush #Advocacy #Justice #CommunitySupport #Preston #WindrushGeneration #PWGDUK ✊🏾❤️
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My mum died before getting compensation, it’s documented in the upheld ombudsman report how awful the scheme was, there was several failings, untrue statements that they doubled down on until the ombudsman report and zero compassion.
Even death does not release Windrush families from Home Office bureaucracy. When a victim dies before their claim is completed, their family can continue through the estate. But where probate is needed, the scheme caps reimbursable legal costs at £1,500 and requires the application to be successful before reimbursement. Victims die waiting for justice, then grieving families are handed more forms, legal hurdles and capped assistance to recover compensation that should have been paid while their loved one was alive. The government had years to settle these claims. Families should not inherit the fight alongside the grief. This is not compassion. It is cruelty administered through paperwork. @10DowningStreet @AndyBurnhamGM @ShabanaMahmood @YvetteCooperMP @Keir_Starmer @ukhomeoffice @UKLabour @CliveFoster3 @CommonsPAC @HumanRightsCtte @MoJGovUK @PHSOmbudsman @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News @itvnews @guardian @Independent @The_Observer_UK @DailyMirror @thetimes @Telegraph @Reuters @LBC @BylineTimes @GoodLawProject @openDemocracy @TheCanaryUK @novaramedia @TheVoiceNews @DefendWindrush @WindrushPreston @JCWI_UK @libertyhq #Windrush #WindrushJustice #WindrushScandal #Justice4Windrush
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DEFEND RAJIV MENON Rajiv Menon KC is facing a contempt trial on Tuesday 28 July 2026, for mentioning "jury equity" in court. @RichieBrave @BameFor @JacquiMckenzie6 @melissasigodo Campaign drive.google.com/file/d/1bB3…
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‘A stain on our nation’: ten years on lawyers demand action for Windrush scandal victims More than 100 lawyers and campaigners urge urgent reform of the compensation scheme as victims continue waiting for justice nearly a decade after the scandal emerged @JacquiMckenzie6 ➡️voice-online.co.uk/uncategor…
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