Michele Marantz | Unprecedented: Stories from the 2024 DNC

Michele Marantz is a delegate from Dalton, Massachusetts and the chair of the Dalton Democratic Town Committee.
“We have been looking for the sense of community for a long, long time,” Marantz said. “We have been since Trump's election. We have been a community joined through anxiety and despair. And now it's totally flipped and it's wonderful. This is what it means to be happy about politics. Wow, what a strange feeling it is.
“It's climate action. I mean, we really need to grapple with this. And we have to stop running away and kicking the can down the road … As a climate activist for the past 10 years in Massachusetts, I am shocked, appalled, and astounded that the Massachusetts legislature did not produce a climate bill at the end of two years. So we are going back to the drawing board, and there's going to be a lot of hollering and phone calls about this within the near future. It is just unacceptable. And we're going to try to make something happen.”
Unprecedented examines the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of Massachusetts attendees and others at the 2024 DNC in Chicago, Illinois.
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