Mar 3, 2022What to Do When the World Is EndingBy Yotam Marom Choosing I’m in the passenger seat of our gray Honda Civic, looking out as my wife Bianca drives us north into upstate New York. We’re on the way to a quiet birthday getaway, our 4 year old daughter Amí happy at home with her grandparents. …13 min read13 min read
Jan 13, 2020Moving Toward Conflict for the Sake of Good StrategyMany of our social movement organizations are conflict avoidant internally, which makes it hard for them to form good strategy or build groups strong enough to carry it out. Our opposition has a strategy, and the stakes are high. …Leadership23 min readLeadership23 min read
Apr 5, 2017A Letter to the Left, About a Place Called AmericaBy Yotam Marom — The only thing that will beat Trump, overcome the right wing populist movement driving him, and outflank the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party, is a genuinely left populist movement. …Politics15 min readPolitics15 min read
Aug 9, 2016Toward the Next Jewish Rebellion:Facing Anti-Semitism and Assimilation in the Movement By Yotam Marom A Brief Note to the Reader: I’ve been writing this piece for a year and a half. I’ve thought a lot about how complicated it is to share something like this in a time of such upheaval — in a…Anti Semitism26 min readAnti Semitism26 min read
Dec 17, 2015Undoing the Politics of PowerlessnessBy Yotam Marom Walking the Tightrope I’m in a warmly lit apartment on the Lower East Side. It’s a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. What a fucking whirlwind it’s been. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents’ basement, feeling deflated after the…Black Lives Matter22 min readBlack Lives Matter22 min read