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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 moment 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.
Published by The New Press; Out June 2nd, 2026
Advance Praise
“There is no one like Yotam Marom when it comes to his visionary perspective on the possibilities grounded in an organizer’s sense of the practicalities and a talent for springing the traps of widely shared assumptions. I have long looked to his fierce, clear, farseeing essays for insight. I consider him 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. I am so excited for this book.”
Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of Hope in the Dark and Men Explain Things to Me.
“This book is a love letter to movements—and a challenge to them. Yotam Marom argues that love in political work means telling the truth, taking responsibility, and daring to build power rather than merely perform it. With vivid storytelling and practical insight, he calls us beyond habits that keep us safe but small, and toward the disciplined craft of strategy, leadership, and collective strength. For Louder Days is both tender and unsparing, and it arrives at a moment when we desperately need both.”
Michelle Alexander, bestselling author of The New Jim Crow
“This book made me laugh, and cry, and dream. At once tender and fierce, Yotam writes with unguarded honesty how we can be bigger, choose each other, tell the truth, and build the movements our people deserve.”
Varshini Prakash, co-founder and former executive director of the Sunrise Movement
“For Louder Days arrives when the billionaire pharaohs tighten their grip and the planet burns and too many of us have made a quiet peace with defeat. Yotam Marom demands that we stop running from leadership, from strategy, from the difficulty of working through conflict so that we can finally recognize our deeper kinship. Read this book. Let it trouble your comfortable despair.”
Raj Patel, bestselling author of The Value of Nothing and Stuff ed and Starved
“At a time when our country - and our movements - stand at a crossroads, For Louder Days challenges us to confront an uncomfortable truth: powerlessness isn’t just imposed on us. It has become a habit. This book is not just about speaking truth to power; it’s about telling the truth to ourselves, and building the will and the strength to act on it.”
Phillip Agnew, co-founder of Dream Defenders and Black Men Build