"Wheat Grain" is an activist group formed by eight women activists in al-Tal, on the outskirts of Damascus. The group aims to launch campaigns and activities that reflect women participation in the Syrian uprising. The city of al-Tal had witnessed several protests in the first few weeks of the uprising. Despite the spontaneous and disorganized nature of the demonstrations, there was some clear and strong female presence. In fact, more than 150 women participating in the first demonstration in March 25, 2011.

The regime's security crackdown began with the earliest demonstrations in al-Tal and soon after imposed a tight siege on the city. There were many arrests, followed by the diffusion of snipers on rooftops and high buildings and security forces threatening to commit massacres in the city. With the advent of organized activism in the town, the eight young women decided to start a group called “Women revolutionaries of the Tall of Freedom.” The group’s first act was to start a silent march in August 2011 where they walked with tied hands and muzzled mouths, and with green ribbons flying from their arms. The group marched through the main boulevard in the city until they reached Al-Zahraa hospital where they dropped their banners.

Other campaigns and activities carried out by the group are silent sit-ins, handing out leaflets in Tal's main streets and binding these leaflets together with a green ribbon, which symbolizes peace and non-sectarianism. The group also devised ways to connect the local population to the protest movement by means of assimilating it into the life of the town. So in the season of olives, the group used “wedding invitations, much similar to the ones used by local families, as invitations to protests, coupled with an olive branch,” as recounted by a group member.

The women organized their work from the beginning along three weekly activities: one day for protests, one day for pamphlets and one day for graffiti. The group also took part in national campaigns like Days of Freedom, Freedom Money, We are the Moral Alternative and We were Born to Live, to name but a few. Their activities also included painting all the major squares in the city with red, and distributing pamphlets in solidarity with other towns and detainees. The group also received help from individual activists with varied political and religious backgrounds.

The group's name, “Wheat Grain”, according to one of the activists, came as a “tribute to the town which is famous for its wheat produce, and as tribute to the feminine influence in the group as the word ‘grain’ in Arabic is a feminine noun.” Wheat Grain is an independent group, self-financed and refuses to submit to the agendas of the opposition.