Antonella Cignarale, 39 years old, videojournalist. In 2001 she studied international law and social policies. The contradiction between what she was studying and the decisions that were made about peoples pushed her to participate in the Genoa days. In turn, those days led her to collaborate with independent information networks. Today she is a correspondent for the television program Report, and in her reports she always tries to privilege the direct experience of people.

Alessandro Metz, 53 years old, participated in the Genoa days with the “Tute bianche”. A social worker, he is also the owner of the Mare Jonio, the first Italian ship involved in search and rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, managed by the civil society platform Mediterranea Saving Humans APS.

A tear gas canister collected by Lorenzo C. in Piazza Giusti while he and other friends were trying to reach the Tute Bianche march. Suddenly, he saw clouds of gas coming out of the underpass that smelled of chili pepper and forced him to divert his route.

Giovanna Casella, 65 years old, and her son Giacomo Flavi, 40 years old, went to Genoa on a bus organized by Rifondazione Comunista. Giovanna is a technician who works at the Agricultural School of the University of Florence. At the time, she was a union delegate for the CGIL. In 2003, she founded the purchasing group Firenze Sud, with which she is still very active. In 2017, Giacomo joined the Eco Pony cooperative, which deals with bicycle deliveries, helping to introduce an hourly contract that protects workers' rights.

Mario Biggeri, 52 years old. In Genoa he participated in the Saturday procession together with COSPE (a non-governmental organization). Associate professor of applied economics at the University of Florence. Today he deals with sustainable human development, international cooperation, well-being and poverty. In 2015 he founded the “Comunità in cammino” composed of two families, part of the national network “Mondo Comunità e Famiglia”, based on the principles of hospitality, sharing and connection with the territory.

An Aloe Vera plant collected by Giovanna C. on the seafront in Genoa. A large plant was on the ground, trampled by people fleeing to the beach, after the police charges. She quickly picked up a small piece, about 3 cm, and as soon as she got home she planted it in a pot. The little Aloe grew for twenty years on her terrace. In 2015 she used it to heal a scar on her hand after an operation.

Luca Trada, 55 years old, was in Genoa on Friday and Saturday, without a reference organization. That experience led him to a more radical and daily activism, through various projects. Today he lives in Milan where he helped refound the city section of APE Associazione Proletaria Escursionisti, to promote the social and political dimension of going to the mountains, far from a “Papeete-style tourism”.

A gas mask donated to Laura L. by a stranger during the clashes near Corso Torino on July 20. That act of altruism gave her courage, helped her breathe, and allowed her to continue taking photographs. That day, she decided to make photography her profession.

Eva Di Giovanni, 37 years old, educator. Kept in Cecina by her job in a restaurant, after the death of Carlo Giuliani she decided to leave at night, and then return to work the following evening. In 2008 she moved to Cecco Rivolta, a historic housing occupation in an old farmhouse just outside Florence, which has now become a cohousing through a self-recovery project. In 2020, with her colleague Sandra Favilli, she opened the “Semi d’Acqua” project, an outdoor educational space for children.

Alessandro Santoro, 55 years old, priest of the Comunità delle Piagge, a public housing district on the outskirts of Florence. With that reality he participated in the days of Genoa, but on Friday, after the death of Carlo Giuliani, he decided to return to Florence, shocked by the events. Today he continues to be a social and spiritual point of reference for the community of Piagge and for the many projects that develop from it.

The first camera of Edoardo D., in 2001 a photography student and now an established photographer. He went to Genoa with a group of friends to photograph the demonstrations and by pure chance he was not inside the Diaz School, during the raid by the police and carabinieri. The photos taken in those days were his first real reportage, published in Diario della Settimana.

Giacomo Costantini, 38 years old, circus performer. He went to Genoa as a “stray dog” and came back with a strong sense of anger, impotence, distrust for organized events and institutions. This also gave rise to his decision to start a traveling circus. In 2007, with Fabiana Ruiz Diaz, he founded the company Circo El Grito, where he communicates his vision of the world through music, theater and acrobatics.

Andrea Musati, 40 years old, from the independent bookshop Punto a Capo in Pisogne (Brescia). He went to Genoa on special trains from Brescia, together with some comrades from Paso, an anarchist occupation experience in Turin. From that movement, he developed the idea of ​​doing politics and culture in a provincial reality. After participating in the self-management of a Youth Centre, he opened his own bookshop in a small town on Lake Iseo, characterising it with anarchist, mountaineering and children's books.

“The White Book” on Genoa, which Camilla R. bought as soon as it came out and from which she cut out the image of Carlo Giuliani. Given her young age, her parents had not allowed her to go to demonstrate. Through the clippings taken from newspapers and magazines, with which she had covered a closet door, she tried to imagine those days. A way to be there.

Cristiana Cortesi (with the pink scarf), 42 years old, teacher, pictured here with Michela Cicculli, Simona Ammerata, Milva Pistoni and Viola Paolinelli. She is one of the founders of the Casa delle donne Lucha y Siesta in Rome, opened on March 8, 2008. A hybrid project between a shelter or semi-autonomy house and an anti-violence center; a project that provides information, guidance, listening and welcome to women who need it. After Genoa, she has never stopped believing in change and trying to make it happen.

Lorenzo Guadagnucci, 58 years old, journalist. He went to Genoa alone on July 21st on his day off, as a private citizen. He had been following the movement for a long time and in January 2001 he had participated in the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. The experience he had at the Diaz school, where he was beaten and arrested, led him to change his life, becoming an activist and founding the Truth and Justice Committee for Genoa in 2002. He was among the founders of the Journalists against Racism group. In August 2001 he wrote his first book “Noi della Diaz” (Altreconomia 2002). He has published other books, both on Genoa G8 - "L'eclisse della democrazia" (with Vittorio Agnoletto, Feltrinelli 2021) - and on other topics, such as civil rights, fair trade, mutualism, animalism.

A photograph taken of Lorenzo Guadagnucci after he left the hospital showing the wounds he suffered during the assault on the Diaz school where he was sleeping on the night of July 21.