On Tuesday afternoon, 21st June 2011, No Borders and refugee solidarity activists blockaded the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook immigration prisons, near Heathrow airport, to stop a mass deportation flight to Baghdad. About 70 Iraqi refugees, mostly Kurds, were due to be forcibly flown on a specially chartered flight from an undisclosed airport at 11pm. A last-minute court injunction forced the Home Office to call it off, so the blockaders decided to end their potest at 9pm, after making sure that the migration prisoners were safely off the buses. The action was an important step in escalating resistance to the deportation machine, in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Campsfield, the rioters in Brook House, the Yarlswood four, and all migration prisoners in their everyday struggle.

Press release and updates | First-hand report | Pictures

On 12th October 2010, 46-year-old Jimmy Mubenga was put on British Airways flight 77 from Heathrow to Luanda. He was accompanied by three security guards from G4S who, according to eyewitnesses, violently assaulted him while trying to 'restrain' him on board the plane. An ambulance was called to the airport and Jimmy was taken to Hillingdon Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Guardian coverage | Corporate Watch article | IRR report on deaths of migrants

From 1st to 9th August, 147 detainees were protesting their detention by refusing meals at Campsfield immigration removal centre. Two solidarity protests were held outside the detention centre.

London commuters were surprised on Friday morning to find that their usual Metro paper was a bit thinner, yet more interesting and engaging, than usual. Tens of thousands of copies of a spoof newspaper that looked very similar to the free daily were distributed at 20 busy tube stations around the capital during rush hour. Thousands more were distributed in other cities around the country. >> report and pix

The Metro has obtained a High Court injunction against "all persons responsible for the publication and/or distribution" of a Metro spoof paper that was distributed by campaigners at London tube stations on Friday morning. But since the spoof was produced and distributed anonymously, the injunction seems to have been served upon the wrong people, in what appears to be a guilty-by-association verdict. >> press release

The 'spoofing operation' was part of Two Days of Action Against Racist Press, called by a coalition of anti-racist and migrant rights groups under the name Press Action.

African migrants are today going to be left homeless after the French Police this morning evicted an abandoned warehouse in Calais that was home to around 80 African migrants from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

The eviction had been pre-announced in yesterday's local newspapers for 13:00 today. Most of the migrants had therefore left the building when the police arrived. The police have sealed off the building and have placed a chemical toilet outside for the workers who will carry out the demolition.

As part of the Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine (1-6 June), different groups around the UK and Europe organised various events, protests and actions in their area. Here's a round-up put together by Stop Deportation.

Various noborder-groups and initiatives all over Europe and beyond have started to mobilize for a series of events between may and october 2010. These protest events will start on 23rd of may in Warsaw against the 5 year birthday "celebration" of the Frontex headquarter and they will end at 5th of October in Melilla in remembrance of the incidents in Ceuta and Melilla in September and October 2005. Read on for a (very brief) summary of the upcoming activities.

Stop Deportation, along with other groups in Europe, are proposing a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, with a focus on joint European mass deportation flights and Frontex. The proposed date is the first week of June 2010, 1st-6th.

Links: Stop Deportation | Callout | Resources | Things to do

The article below is taken from ayya, where a couple of Bristol No Borders activists have reporting from the World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 19-22 April 2010.

19th April – From the Migration and Climate Change Working Group