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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Steven Wickham, Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth
Description: Steven Wickham last week undertook a spontaneous act of civil disobedience. As chairman of the steering committee for the Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth, he got a call last Thursday afternoon that Pyramid was clear-cutting trees to make way for a Costco before the project had gone through the state-required environmental review process. In this week’s podcast, Wickham tells how he ended up sitting on the blade of the tree-cutting machine. He also talks about the way civil disobedience, over the centuries, helped in founding our nation and in moving it forward. When he was in second grade, Wickham sa...