Micheal Miller (Photo: Peter Carr/ LoHud

“Micheal Miller faced down snarling dogs and armed police as a teenager during civil rights marches and sit-ins while growing up in North Carolina in the 1960s.

Miller said police arrested him 26 times for his civil disobedience.

So, the founder of Rockland’s grassroots movement against illegal development and over-development is not easily intimidated.

“When you have faced police and dogs and taking on bigots, you become immune to nasty name-calling and the wishes and powers of the establishment,” the 73-year-old civic activist said.

Miller has his sense of right and wrong, and he’s tried instilling those beliefs earned on the civil rights battlefields to members of Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods — known as CUPON. [Read more…]