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. It was created in 2000, a year before the scheduled

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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

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National adherents to the GSF

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* 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 - 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 -

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* Legacoop Liguria - Comparto Cooperative Sociali * Legambiente Circolo Nuova Ecologia * Legambiente Regionale Liguria * LILA * LOC - Lega degli obiettori di coscienza *

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* Mani Tese *Marea * MLAL - Movimento Laici America Latina * Movimento Federalista Europeo *

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* Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Forum Donne * Partito Umanista * Planet * Progetto Continenti * RdB - Rappresentanze di Base as an adherent of the CUB * RdB - Rappresentanze di Base as an adherent of the CUB delegati INPS * Rete ControG8 * Rete Lilliput * Rappresentati Sindacali Unitari *

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* Sondagenova * Suore del Buon Pastore *

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- Gruppo di Solidarietà Camogli * UISP * Ya Basta! {{div col end Political movements