The organizers of this conversation live in Kingston, a small city of ~120,000 in southeastern Ontario. A stronghold of Canada’s Liberal establishment, Kingston hosts an elite university, a military college, a military base and the highest concentration of federal prisons in the country. Despite these grim statistics, there has been a continuous anarchist presence in the city over the past several decades.

It has been exciting to see discussions emerging in recent years geared towards developing strategies for participating in locally-relevant but uncompromisingly anarchist struggles in smaller cities. The hope is to continue that conversation, sharing some experiences and case studies from Kingston's context, hearing about Asheville's, and posing questions like:

• What can anarchists do in smaller places that can’t be done in big cities?
• What are some unique challenges of being an anarchist in a smaller place?
• How do we choose friends and enemies when there are less people around?
• What tactics can we develop that do not depend on large crowds and/or social movements?

We obviously don’t have all the answers, but would love to have an  exchange with others who are asking similar questions.