Author: Fred Gardner

Reforming Richmond: Michael Leedie’s POV

By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser 8/25/93 Michael Leedie, the man who passed the bullhorn around at the Aug. 14 rally outside the gates of General Chemical in North Richmond, was wearing two hats (as the saying...

Richmond, CA: “A Major Disaster Area”

By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser 8/18/93 Richmond, a city of 80,000 people on San Pablo Bay, is the site of vast chemical storage facilities and refineries. The population is half black –a lot of the...