Flier calls for violence against Occupy Oakland protesters

[hack89]

OAKLAND -- A flier disseminated downtown is urging people to bring bats to next Thursday's Occupy Oakland anniversary protest, not to smash bank windows, but to "beat the (expletive)" out of anarchists and vandals.

The flier asks residents to "stand up and defend the great city of Oakland" and specifically calls for violence against "black-clad" Caucasians that "use our city landscape as a canvas for their divisive and violent message."

No one has taken responsibility for one-page post, which leaves no contact information. It claims to be from a group calling itself DOOM -- Defend Our Oakland Movement.

The flier comes amid deepening fractures within the Occupy movement over recent bouts of window smashing and graffiti tagging by politically motivated vandals. Occupy supporters didn't rule out that the flier might have been drafted by one of their own fed up with the ongoing vandalism.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_21787564/flier-calls-violence-against-oakland-anarchists

Is there really that big a schism over occupy tactics? I don't associate window smashing with OWS - are there other groups taking advantage of OWS?