Graham Platner

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.

I wound up on the planning board.

I wound up being the harbor master.

And in doing all that, I began to see like really the value of building trust and relationships and just organizing on the ground.

And I also began to realize that organizing is actually not that complicated.

It's just really hard.