Yotam Marom presents For Louder Days

The essential guide to establishing an effective opposition movement in the age of Trump, from the leading activist and organizer

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 is an - organizer, facilitator, and writer with over twenty years of experience in movements. He played a leadership role in Occupy Wall Street, co--founded a national training organization and other movement proj-ects, and has led and participated in mass mobilizations and direct actions across a broad range of issues. Yotam spends much of his time as a group facilitator, supporting the leadership teams of movement -organizations to develop good strategy and healthy group dynamics, often helping them move through conflict in a generative way and working with them over many years. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Kandace Montgomery is a grassroots organizer, trainer, and movement strategist. She played a pivotal role in the George Floyd uprising in Minneapolis, led a ballot initiative to defund the police, and co-founded Black Visions Collective. More recently, she co-founded Free MN to organize neighbors against ICE, and she works as a trainer and strategist with Future Currents.

Cat Salonek Schladt (she/her) is a South Minneapolis organizer for people power. At work, Cat serves as Executive Director of Tending the Soil, an alignment of five power-building non-profits and labor organizations led by working class, BIPOC community leaders with a long history of effective and equitable organizing. Prior to her current role, Cat made good trouble with Line 3 resistance, Occupy Homes, OutFront Minnesota, and CWA. In community, Cat co-created the Minneapolis Fire Squad, a community rapid-response network that operated during the George Floyd uprising in 2020, and trained more than 4,000 individuals to participate in non-violent direct action during Operation Metro Surge in 2026. She loves bonfires, board games, and Lake Nokomis. A Twin Cities resident by birth and by choice, Cat lives in the Central neighborhood with her wife and their three children.

Aru Shiney-Ajay, 28, is the Executive Director of Sunrise Movement, a movement of young people working to stop authoritarianism and win a Green New Deal. Aru’s journey at Sunrise began 9 years ago as a student volunteer organizer. Since then she has trained thousands of young people, designed national & local campaigns for climate justice, and now serves as the Executive Director. Aru currently lives and organizes in her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sarah Abbott grew up in southeastern Minnesota on Dakota land, and currently resides in Minneapolis with her partner and her many houseplants. She has been part of social change and climate justice movements for fifteen years, and spent a decade organizing young people with wealth for wealth redistribution while on staff with Resource Generation. More recently, she was the Managing Director of the Sunrise Movement, a young-people-led movement fighting climate change and organizing for a Green New Deal. Along with consulting with Beyond Neutrality, she is currently a somatic coach and facilitator trained through generative somatics, a teacher with Embodying Racial Justice, and a team member at Chordata Capital. She organizes locally in Minneapolis as part of Christians for a Free Palestine and other movements for justice, and is the co-founder of Singing Resistance, a movement of singers working to defeat authoritarianism and to build liberatory culture.

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