A grandma-led movement
to heal the land and people.
RadGram strengthens grassroots movements led by communities on the frontlines of environmental justice. We join women-led resistance, support local enterprises, and connect global allies to the struggle. Born from a village reclaiming power through weaving, we stand with human rights defenders across Thailand—and with everyone restoring what extractive industry tried to take from them.
RadGram strengthens grassroots movements led by communities on the frontlines of environmental justice. We join women-led resistance, support local enterprises, and connect global allies to the struggle. Born from a village reclaiming power through weaving, we stand with human rights defenders across Thailand—and with everyone restoring what extractive industry tried to take from them.
Where we work
Khon Rak Barn Kerd - Loei, Thailand
Khon Rak Barn Kerd (KRBK) was formed in 2006 in Na Nong Bong to campaign for the closure of a gold mine. While the 2015 closure was a major victory, it marked the beginning of a new struggle: healing. The community now works to restore the damaged environment, rebuild relationships, and recover their well-being and economy.
Dong Ma Fai - Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand
The Dong Mafai Community (DMF) has led limestone mining resistance for 30 years, defending their environment, health, and livelihoods. In 2022, RadGram partnered with DMF to launch a tourism initiative that generates sustainable income and amplifies their anti-mining message.
What We Do
Highlights of Our Work
Four ways our communities are organizing, teaching, and building power together. Tap each one to read more.
Social enterprise is a core part of Radical Grandma Collective's roots. We started out selling hand-woven goods from Loei, Thailand to markets in the U.S., creating an income stream for the grandmas of Khon Rak Ban Kerd (KRBK) and carrying their story across borders.
The grandmothers of KRBK established their weaving group in 2009 as an act of resistance, weaving to fund their fight against the gold mine and to keep organizing. RadGram's role was to bring that work to wider markets and stand behind the people making it. That foundation still shapes everything we do.
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The Weaving School is rooted in the belief that traditional knowledge belongs to the community and that it must be passed on by the community. The school brings together KRBK weavers in Loei and village youth to learn the full cycle of local textile production: planting organic, native cotton varieties; spinning raw fiber into thread; dyeing fabric using natural materials; designing patterns; and weaving.
Each step carries knowledge that industrial agriculture and extractive industry have worked to erode. By teaching it again, communities are reclaiming their relationship with the land and with each other.
Movements grow when people can tell their own stories. Public Narrative Training supports community members to put their experiences into words, connecting personal struggle to community struggle, and community struggle to the wider fight for environmental justice.
This training, developed in partnership with the Restorative Culture Coalition of Thailand (RCCT), gives people the tools to speak with clarity and power in public spaces: to village meetings, to media, to courts, and beyond.
Real learning about extractive industries starts with the communities living alongside them. Through education programs co-hosted with community partners including the Dong Mafai Community / Khao Lao Yai–Pha Chan Dai Community Forest Conservation Group, students learn directly from community members about the impacts of limestone and gold mining, take part in community-based research, and study how restoration is led from within.
These programs bring young people, Thai university students and international participants alike, into relationships with movements they would not otherwise encounter, and they center community members as teachers and experts in their own right.