 The Southeast Social Forum grew out of the World Social Forum process that began in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001.Between 2001 and 2006, the Social Forum process had spread to numerous countries around the world.However, some organizers in the World Social Forum process had felt that the United States was not ready for a Social Forum—although this belief was contested, and ultimately disproven by the success of the Boston Social Forum in July 2004.