Occupying small towns isn't easy. The scale of the occupation and the issues activists want to highlight are often different from camps in larger cities. A successful occupation in rural Canada requires a few tweaks to standard organizing. Getting the message out might be the easy part - maintaining commitment and momentum with community support can be harder. But with the right approach, small towns can support all kinds of radical movements. This guide details how to

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Doulas are folks who "mother the mothers" during and after pregnancy. They help guide women through the physical and psychological changes that come during birth by sharing knowledge gained through courses and the experiences of other women.

While doulas provide non-clinical support to a woman (and her partner), a radical doula simply holds different politics. Radical doulas are frequently pro-choice (many of them offer their services through the process of abortion as well as birth), queer or gender variant, people of colour and may or may not ever see themselves as having children.

This overview of radical consent for mad folks from radical sex education could easily be turned into a workshop.

A great outline to pair with this is the learning good consent zine, which also has an outline for basic consent workshops in it (page 14). For mad folks, consent is as much about defining what their madness can feel like as well as their level of comfort with a person.

This two hour sex positive workshop covers how to make safer sex a little more fun (and therefore more likely to happen). Make sure that there's lots of safer sex barriers to show off before people get too excited. This workshop includes:

Sex positive definitions

What is consent

Creating safe space

Condom banana ice breaker

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Sexy role play scripts for participants

An old episode of Frasier, the television comedy set in Seattle, focuses on an impending strike at the fictional radio station where Frasier works as an on-air psychiatrist. Whether the script writers knew it or not, they were tapping into the radical history of a city that has the dubious or proud distinction of being the location of the first general strike in American history. And that's not all.

In a recent visit to the compact west-coast city about two hours south of Vancouver as the Nexus card let's you fly, er, drive, I uncovered numerous examples of Seattle's connections to the labour movement, indigenous struggles for survival and the haunting licks of Jimi Hendrix's weeping guitar. It was a visit full of eye-opening surprises.