Over the past three decades, the Pak Mun villagers have protested the Pak Mun Dam. In the past decade, writes Dr Kanokwan Manorom, the movement has become a slow form of civil disobedience—through continued existence, adaptation, and insistence on their way of life under oppressive power structures.

<p>Rasi Salai, Sisaket - A twenty-foot high tower of rice sacks presides over The Wetlands Center in Rasi Salai, serving as a reverent centerpiece assembled by local villagers in honor of their land and labor. For a community bound together by the natural world and, increasingly, the myriad of threats to it, the rice mound is a symbol to be admired.</p>