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Well, the chant is wrong as the San Francisco Chronicle tells us.
A tense face-off between Occupy Oakland activists and members of a new group formed to protest their tactics erupted this afternoon in front of Oakland City Hall, with both sides accusing each other of missing the point of the Occupy movement.One Occupier told a member of the splinter group, "You're in the matrix. You've been indoctrinated."
About 40 people calling themselves members of Stand for Oakland gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza around noon to denounce what they said was violence and vandalism by Occupy Oakland protesters in recent weeks.
They said they sympathized with Occupy Oakland's focus on economic disparity, but maintained that destruction during clashes with police was giving the overall Occupy movement a bad name. They cited in particular activists' trashing of parts of City Hall after their failed attempt Jan. 28 to take over the long-empty Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.
Several of the 150 Occupy Oakland protesters who gathered alongside the new group said any violence and destruction during their actions was in reaction to heavy-handedness by Oakland police.
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