Genoa Social Forum is a coalition of movements , political parties and societies opposed to capitalist globalisation . It was created in 2000 , a year before the scheduled 27th G8 summit in Genoa 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 , former MEP for the Communist Refoundation Party
27th G8 summit
27th G8 summit
Genoa Social Forum