Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
Tom Nattell, his scraggly salt- and-pepper beard still dripping, had just pedaled his mountain bike home from work through a driving rainstorm.
Now he is attempting to restore some order to the barely controlled, after-school anarchy of his Pine Hills bungalow.
The extended, heavy rains had given his children, Noah, 6, and Leah, 12, a bad case of cabin fever. Their aging retriever mix, Oso, was parked next to the front door, unwilling to budge for an entering visitor. Bugs, the escape-artist rabbit, had done it again and was roaming the basement, leaving his calling card here and there.
Worst of all, the calming, ordered presence of Nattell's wife, Deborah Richards, a lawyer, was not due for an hour or more.
Welcome to the home of Tom Nattell, Albany's ubiquitous activist, who has been tear-gassed, arrested and imprisoned more times than he cares to remember during two decades of civil disobedience, battling everything from apartheid to nuclear proliferation to human rights violations in South America.
Nattell has been a thorn in the side of Albany's establishment since his days as an …
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