Why we share knowledge
Knowledge about extractive industries, land rights, and community-led restoration is hard to find, and even harder to find told from the perspective of the communities living it. We share resources here because information is part of the movement. When more people understand what is at stake and how communities are fighting back, the circle of solidarity grows.
These resources have been gathered and created over years of relationship with communities, organizers, researchers, and advocates in Thailand and beyond. We offer them as tools for learning, teaching, and taking action.
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Weaving School Graduation 2025
An internal gathering within the six mine-affected communities to celebrate the second cohort of weaving school students completing their own fabrics and coursework. Community representatives also shared updates on the community's restoration plan.
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Weaving School Graduation 2024
Celebrating the first graduating cohort of weaving school students, this gathering brought together cultural revival, storytelling of the mining resistance, and economic empowerment through weaving.
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Dong Mafai Community Website
Built over two years by RadGram interns, this bilingual Thai-English website shares Dong Mafai's thirty-year struggle against limestone mining and promotes the community's own tourism initiatives.
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Hope after the mine was closed
An in-depth article documenting how mine-affected communities in Loei carry their struggle forward after mine closure through community-led restoration, with the Weaving School at the center of preserving culture and rebuilding livelihoods.
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Bueak: natural dye, restoration, and community livelihoods
A short documentary following a native plant in Loei, Bueak, that continues to thrive despite mining contamination. Through natural dyeing and weaving, the film shows how local knowledge and ecology work together to restore the river, the economy, and cultural memory.
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Weaving to fight the mine
Nearly two decades of resistance by mine-affected communities in Wang Saphung, Loei, told through the Weaving School for Life and Nature Restoration, where weaving becomes a tool for ecological restoration, intergenerational learning, and sustained resistance.
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Community restoration planning meeting
Coverage of a meeting bringing together academics, policymakers, and mine-affected communities, over seventy people strong, to shape a community-led restoration plan addressing the environmental, health, and economic impacts of mining in Wang Saphung, Loei.
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Radical Grandma Collective
A feature tracing RadGram's path from mining resistance to holistic community restoration, with interviews from organizers in the Loei weaving group and our executive director.
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Radical Thai grandmas fighting environmental justice
An international radio conversation on RadGram's origins and how weaving has funded the fight for reparations after gold mining's lasting harm.
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Wang Saphung awaits its revival
A documentary tracing the shift from resisting the mine to leading restoration, with reforestation and livelihood recovery driven by the community itself.
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Loei's lingering wounds
Written by our Community Impact Coordinator, this investigative piece documents the lasting environmental damage and psychosocial toll of gold mining in Loei, and the ways residents lead their own healing and restoration.
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