Asuncion, Paraguay: At least 14 police were injured in a protest by farmers demanding agrarian reform. Paraguayan campesinos have been struggling against a wave of paramilitary violence linked to the expansion of genetically-modified soy biofuel monocultures in the countryside.





Vichy, France: Masked anarchists attacked police and torched three cars as about 2000 people protested the EU's repressive immigration policies. The meeting of 27 EU ministers to discuss immigration was the first international government conference held in Vichy, the former capital of the pro-Nazi regime during WWII. Many of the demonstrators compared current EU restrictions on migration to Nazi policies of mass deportation and genocide.

East Jerusalem: Israel demolished four unauthorized Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied East Jerusalem in one day, provoking local youths who threw stones at police and a demolition unit in Silwan, where two homes were razed. Five police were injured and several police vehicles damaged as clashes continued through the day.