Chronicle: Thousands of antifracking activists took to Oakland's streets Saturday to call for Gov. Jerry Brown to change his stance and ban the controversial practice, which uses large amounts of a pressurized water mixture to crack subterranean rocks and release oil or natural gas.
Chanting, playing music and waving signs reading "Don't Frack Your Mother" and "There's No Planet B," demonstrators wove their way along an almost two-mile route, starting at Oakland's City Hall and then moving through downtown...