The essential guide to establishing an effective opposition movement in the age of Trump, from the leading activist and organizer
“I consider Marom] one of the most generous and important thinkers for the activist left, for anyone who cares about where we are and how to get to where we should be.” –Rebecca Solnit
There is no way to stop the descent into authoritarianism, nor win a world in which all people can thrive, without massive numbers of people organizing for social, political, and economic change.
Yet experienced movement leader Yotam Marom delivers a hard truth: progressive and left movements too often get in their own way. They can be ambivalent about power, choosing insularity and purity over winning. This amounts to what Marom calls the “politics of powerlessness,” which has kept movements small, weak, and defeated.
In For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness, Marom offers a brilliant, lyrical clarion cry for a more honest, more strategic, more loving approach to progressive activism and movement building. Grounded in decades of experience in movements, from leading at Occupy Wall Street and other movement moments to supporting some of the most important climate, racial justice, and democracy movements of our time, Marom dives deep into the challenges that hold movements back, and offers stories, tools, and paths toward real power and enduring change.
Published at the most perilous time in our modern political history, For Louder Days comes not a moment too soon. It is essential reading for committed activists as well as the wider public concerned about the state of our world and hoping to change it for the better.
Yotam Marom has been in movements since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He has played leadership roles at Occupy Wall Street and other movements before and after, and co-founded IfNotNow and the Wildfire Project. Yotam has trained and facilitated many of the leading social justice organizations of these times, from Sunrise and the Dream Defenders to Uncommitted and Hands Off NYC, and more. He lives in Brooklyn, and this is his first book.
Marom will be in conversation with Keya Chatterjee, the Executive Director and cofounder of Free DC a renewed movement to protect Home Rule and win lasting dignity for the people of DC. Free DC is a five year campaign focused on seeding a culture of joyful defiance, training DC residents on noncooperation as jurors, workers, consumers, and more, and responding to dozens of attacks on DC– from military occupation to the takeover of our public spaces and cultural centers. Keya is also a cofounder of Freedom Trainers, a loose network of trainers teaching about the powerful tools of collective noncompliance and mass noncooperation like boycotts and strikes. Keya started her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco. She served as a Presidential Management Fellow at NASA, in the Science Mission Directorate for four years. After NASA, Keya worked at USAID and WWF as a Climate Change specialist. Keya also ran US Climate Action Network for almost a decade, a network of US Climate-focused organizations, where her tenure was bookended by the network’s efforts to secure the Paris Climate Agreement and pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Keya was elected and served two terms as a hyperlocal neighborhood commissioner, and currently serves on the boards of Sunrise Movement and Evergreen Action. She is the author of works of both fiction and nonfiction, including her October 2025 romance novel about taking down fascism, The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G.