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title: "UN Tells Us: Get in the Streets!"
date: 2009-06-10T21:39:31Z
modified: 2009-06-10T21:39:31Z
permalink: "https://350.org/un-tells-us-get-streets/"
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status: publish
excerpt: This just in from Bonn, Germany, where 350 organizers are on the ground--
wpid: 4682
author: May Boeve
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This just in from Bonn, Germany, where 350 organizers are on the ground–

At a meeting with Non Governmental Organizations in Bonn, the UNFCCC\* Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, had this to say to groups in the room:

“The problem I have is that when we all get back home – it’s the potential losers that have the ear of the politicians and not the potential winners. Very big corporations who employ few people and have a modest contribution to GDP outweigh millions of small and medium enterprises who contribute billions. _If you could get your members out on the street before Copenhagen that would be incredibly valuable._“

Well, that sounded like a challenge to us, and we’re more than willing to accept it. [See you on the streets on October 24!](https://www.350.org/oct24)

 \*UNFCCC=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change