Bay Area Activists Mystified by Occupy Oakland Offshoot

A week ago, a flyer was passed out in Oakland ahead of an Occupy-led general strike march that briefly shut down the city’s port. In it, an organization calling itself the Oakland Liberation Front (OLF) urged recipients to consider tactics of violence.

But as Jason Motlagh reports for TIME, there is confusion about who exactly the OLF is. Despite the fact that members caught on video vandalizing a Whole Foods wore the trademark uniform of anarchist Black Bloc movement members, that seems to be something of a trick.

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