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Wednesday, 24 September 2008

UN Summit diary: cops with donuts, dogs with sunglasses

By Adrian Lovett, Save the Children, in New York

New York City.  The sun is shining.  The world leaders are in town.  The traffic is at a standstill.  "Why are you honking your horn, stupid?" yells a pedestrian.  "Nobody's going nowhere!" 

President Bush is here today, and so is Sarah Palin apparently.  I missed both of those, but did see the Ugandan delegation's car number 5 and China's bus number 15.  The UN hasn't switched to discussing global poverty yet so today is about laying the ground for what we want to do later in the week.

Our campaigner Claire sprints from one embassy to another, meeting Ambassadors and delivering messages from the 71,000 people around the world who've joined in our 'Get On Track' action.  Press officer Ben stakes out the arriving media and starts getting our messages out. Head of Campaigns Leora meets with our partners in the 'In My Name' event taking place on Thursday which we hope will get some attention. 

There are police everywhere.  Snipers on the roofs.  When we meet with Save the Children colleagues in the meeting room we share with other organisations, we find three NYPD cops have taken over a corner of our room where they have a good view of the approach road to the UN building down below.  They are the real thing - even down to the donuts for lunch. 

Claire joins the rest of the team for dinner and swears she has seen a dog wearing sunglasses on the street outside.  I am sceptical but Leora, our resident American, advises that these are quite common and are called 'doggles'.  Claire mentions she also ran into Bono.  If a dog has doggles, are Bono's shades called boggles? 

We're staying in a little apartment we've rented for the week.  There are four of us in two rooms, so Ben (who drew the short straw) tries to move his foldaway bed into the very small dining room to give himself some privacy.  The bed does fit in there, but only when folded away. That's not going to be comfortable.

Adrian Lovett is Director of Campaigns at Save the Children UK

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surely the only real doggle this week is the world boondoggle that your attending??

does that make this a bloggle?

You are flogging a dead horse. That makes this a floggle.

If you were talking about cats would it be a cattle.

The words should match so for a cat it must be caddle.

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