What We Do
Communities in Northeast Thailand are organizing, planting, weaving, teaching, and rebuilding on their own terms. RadGram works alongside them — providing resources, connections, and sustained solidarity so that work can grow.
Our role is to strengthen what communities are already doing. We support grassroots movements defending land and ecosystems from extractive industry. We co-create economic projects rooted in traditional knowledge and community ownership. We invest in the next generation of organizers and land defenders. And we hold space for the healing that long struggles require.
This work happens across four areas: strengthening environmental justice movements, restoring ecosystems and community relationships with the land, building community-based economies, and supporting collective care for human rights defenders. Each area reinforces the others — because land, livelihood, movement, and wellbeing are not separate.
Our Work
Communities in Northeast Thailand are organizing, planting, weaving, teaching, and rebuilding on their own terms. RadGram works alongside them — providing resources, connections, and sustained solidarity so that work can grow.
Our role is to strengthen what communities are already doing. We support grassroots movements defending land and ecosystems from extractive industry. We co-create economic projects rooted in traditional knowledge and community ownership. We invest in the next generation of organizers and land defenders. And we hold space for the healing that long struggles require.
This work happens across four areas: strengthening environmental justice movements, restoring ecosystems and community relationships with the land, building community-based economies, and supporting collective care for human rights defenders. Each area reinforces the others — because land, livelihood, movement, and wellbeing are not separate.
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.
RadGram strengthens community-driven movements to defend and restore rights and ecosystems in Northeast Thailand. Tap each outcome below to see the objective, outcomes, and activities behind it.
Healthy Ecosystems
Objective
Strong, land-based livelihoods that foster ecological restoration.
Outcomes
- Implementation of community-led restoration plans that restore ecosystem health, enhance biodiversity, and increase food security
- Increased awareness and use of regenerative restoration and land management practices
- Sustainable land-based livelihoods become viable
Activities
- Development and implementation of community restoration plans
- Reforestation activities
- Cotton growing and weaving culture restoration in Loei
Thriving Local Economies
Objective
Thriving community-based economies resistant to extractive industries.
Outcomes
- Increased community income and economic security
- Development of collaborative financial management
- Growth in community enterprises, including Dong Mafai community-based tourism and Khon Rak Ban Kerd weaving group
Activities
- Dong Mafai community-based tourism
- KRBK weaving group and cotton culture restoration
- Community-based educational programs
Strong Community Movements
Objective
Grassroots movements with the ability to create their own futures with the right resources and tools.
Outcomes
- Women and youth take leadership roles in community movements
- Increased capacity of people's movements through skill-building and networking
- Human rights defenders have resources to sustain community organizing
Activities
- Fiscal sponsorship and re-granting for local groups
- Organizing fund
- Public narrative trainings
Collective Care
Objective
Communities realizing their full potential through restored relationships strained by prolonged resistance.
Outcomes
- Increased inter-generational and cross-border solidarity around environmental justice
- Enhanced psychosocial wellness and safety for human rights defenders
- Conflict resolution and relationship repair in communities impacted by environmental struggles
Activities
- Psychosocial research
- Reforestation activities
- Psychosocial support for WHRDs