Harvard Book Store welcomes Yotam Marom—leading activist, organizer, and co-founder of IfNotNow and the Wildfire Project—for a discussion of his debut book, For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness. He will be joined in conversation by Marshall Ganz—Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the author of People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal.
About 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.