Feeding people, activism and arrests connect RNC 8′s Nathanael Secor and Robert Czernik

Czernik, whose intimates call him “Tumbleweed,” tells this story: In the spring of 1998, he was arrested at a protest in Ohio and spent a week in a county jail. During the week he spent there, he told his cellmate about his forest activism and the way he traveled around.

“He said, ‘Oh, you’re like a tumbleweed,’” recalls Czernik, and his cellmate began calling him that inside that county jail.

“And it kind of stuck,” said Czernik.

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