Graham Platner

And she's a pretty storied labor organizer who sadly passed just a few years ago, which is a shame because we could use her now.

In it, the book really talks about the difference between organizing and mobilizing.

Developing a deeper theory of power in which power really is accessible for people who are willing to organize and to take it in many ways.

In that we, in our society, even in like liberal circles,

still kind of have this vision that there is an elite who's like worthy of wielding power and the rest of us kind of have to like, you know, let them do it.

And her argument is like, that's simply not true.

That really power is power is for everybody.

but it requires organizing to bring it around.

It requires trust building and relationship building.

And I read that and it kind of changed my life actually, because I began to think that, like I spent a lot of time, especially coming back, my last trip to Afghanistan was in 2018.

And it was just, to call it disillusioning would be an understatement.

I was there for six months, hadn't been there in seven years.

And I was like, okay, well, nobody has any new ideas.

This is insane.

And I came back and I was really kind of just at a loss of what to do.

And I decided to kind of opt out.

And I moved back to my hometown, became an oyster farmer, started working on the ocean and really wanted to just check out

But while I did that, I also began to connect to my community.

I live in a town of a thousand people.

It's the town I was born and raised in.