Slideshow: Demonstrators call for a fracking ban in California
All photos by Andrew Klein. Hear/read the accompanying report.
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- Roman Harrison breakdances before the start of the March for Real Climate Leadership in Oakland, which organizers described as the largest anti-fracking march in U.S. history.
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- Food workers from UNITE HERE local 2850 were among a large contingent of California unions that turned out for the march.
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- The Oakland organization Rock the Bike provided a pedal-powered sound system for the event.
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- Get Up Street Theater (GUST) uses a gas station as the backdrop for its performance.
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- Kayakers join the march as it circles Lake Merritt.
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- Juan Flores, a community organizer with the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, is a resident of Kern County in the Central Valley, where most of California’s fracked wells are located.
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- Marchers call on Governor Jerry Brown to follow New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s lead and issue a statewide fracking ban.
