The Genoa Social Forum is a coalition of movements, political parties and societies opposed to capitalist

Capitalism

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 globalisation. It was created in 2000, a year before the scheduled 27th G8 summit

27th G8 summit

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 in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 in 2001, and included several associations - and hundreds of smaller ones - largely but not solely from Italy. Although it made several requests to meet the institutional representatives, as a forerunner of a counter-forum, on June 24 2001 they were met by police chief Gianni De Gennaro. Its national spokesperson was Vittorio Agnoletto

Vittorio Agnoletto

Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Southern Italy constituency. He was first elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections on the Communist Refoundation Party list, part of the European Left...

, now an MEP

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 for the Communist Refoundation Party

Communist Refoundation Party

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National adherents to the GSF

• ACM - Associazione Culturale Mignanego
• Altrimondi
• ARCI Associazione Libriamo
• ARCI Circolo Mascherona 16
• ARCI Genova
  Génova
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• Arciragazzi
• Associazione Agire Politicamente
• Associazione Città Aperta
• Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII Liguria
• Associazione Gay-Lesbica Liberi Tutti
• Associazione Giuristi Democratici
• Associazione Medici per l'Ambiente - ISDE
  International Society of Doctors for the Environment
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• Associazione per il Rinnovamento della Sinistra
• Associazione Pimpiripetta
• AYUSYA
• Bambini Vittime
• Banca Etica - Circoscrizione Locale di Genova e Imperia
• CEDRITT
• Centro Cooperazione Sviluppo
• Chiesa Evangelica Metodista
• Chiesa Evangelica Valdese di Sampierdarena
  Sampierdarena
  Sampierdarena is a major port and industrial area of Genoa, in northwest Italy. With San Teodoro it forms the West Central municipio.-Geography:...
  
  
• COGEDE
• Comunità di San Benedetto al Porto
• Consorzio Sociale Agorà
• COSPE
• Centro Sociale Talpa e Orologio
• CSOA Emiliano Zapata
• CSOA Terra di Nessuno
• Federazione Chiese Evangeliche Liguria
• Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti
• Federazione Giovanile Comunisti Italiani
• Federazione Regionale Solidarietà e Lavoro
• Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici - Fiom
• Giovani Comunisti
• ICS
  ICS
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   - Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà
• Il Ce.sto
• ISCOS CISL Liguria
• La Rete per il Partito Democratico Liguria
• Lavoratori della Libreria Feltrinelli
• Lavoro Società - Cambiare Rotta - CGIL
• Legacoop Liguria - Comparto Cooperative Sociali
• Legambiente Circolo Nuova Ecologia
• Legambiente Regionale Liguria
  Liguria
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• LILA
• LOC - Lega degli obiettori di coscienza
• Macondo
  Macondo
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• Mani Tese
• Marea
• MLAL - Movimento Laici America Latina
• Movimento Federalista Europeo
  Movimento Federalista Europeo
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• Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
• Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Forum Donne
• Partito Umanista
• Planet
  Planet
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• Progetto Continenti
• RdB
  RDB
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   - Rappresentanze di Base as an adherent of the CUB
• RdB
  RDB
  Rdb and RDB can refer to:* Rang de Basanti, a 2006 Hindi-language film starring Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, R. Madhavan, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor and Alice Patten...
  
   - Rappresentanze di Base as an adherent of the CUB delegati INPS
• Rete ControG8
• Rete Lilliput
• Rappresentati Sindacali Unitari
• Sinistra Giovanile
• Sondagenova
• Suore del Buon Pastore
• Time for Peace - Gruppo di Solidarietà Camogli
• UISP
• Ya Basta!