As a confederation of grassroots organizations, Symbiosis is built by and for its affiliated organizations. There are two ways an organization can affiliate: as a member organization and a partner organization.
Member organizations are local, place-based, grassroots institutions or institution-building movements who will constitute the decision-making body of our confederation.
Partner organizations are ideologically-aligned allies whose work does not fall into the member organization category but who nonetheless have an interest in seeing the Congress take place and a permanent confederation arise.
Current Members and Partners
Member Organizations
- Asamblea de los Pueblos Indígenas del Istmo en Defensa de la Tierra y el Territorio (Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oax., MX)
- Athens for Everyone (Athens, GA, USA)
- Carbondale Spring (Carbondale, IL, USA)
- Chicago Community Councils (Chicago, IL, USA)
- Coop Asbury (Asbury Park, NJ, USA)
- Cooperation Jackson (Jackson, MS, USA)
- Cooperation Metro Atlanta (Atlanta, GA, USA)
- Cooperation Northfield (Northfield, MN, USA)
- Flora Cooperative (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
- James and Grace Lee Boggs Center (Detroit, MI, USA)
- Kola Nut Collaborative (Chicago, IL, USA)
- Olympia Assembly (Olympia, WA, USA)
- Neighborhood Anarchist Collective (Eugene, OR, USA)
- Permaculture Action Network – California Bioregional Crew (California, USA)
- Permeate (Calgary, AB, CAN)
- Symbiosis Montréal (Montréal, QC, CAN)
- Symbiosis NYC (New York, NY, USA)
- Symbiosis PDX (Portland, OR, USA)
- Symbiosis Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
- UpState Living Assembly (New Lebanon, NY, USA)
- Woodbine (Queens, NY, USA)
Partner Organizations
- Black Socialists of America
- California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) – Department of Anthropology and Social Change
- DegrowUS
- Democratic Socialists of America – Libertarian Socialist Caucus
- Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs)
- Institute for Social Ecology
- Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
- Move to Amend
- Organization for a Free Society
- Permaculture Action Network
- Popular Resistance
- Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
- Radio Fogata Cherán
- ROAR Magazine
- Solidarity Research Center
- Street Groomers
- Youth Partnership Uganda
Note: We are no longer able to accept new organization affiliates ahead of the Congress of Municipal Movements.
Unaffiliated Individuals and Starting an Organization
Our work is not only about building relationships between existing organizations, but helping to seed new ones. If you are an individual unaffiliated with an organization in your area but are looking to start one, you’re still welcome to join us!
Check out our organizing committees to see where new individual members are congregating so far, or start one of your own after you join Symbiosis.