Category: Featured actions
How to Protest Virtually with the #MillionsMissing on May 12th
May 9, 2018
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Join the protest from your home. Here are several ways to take action.
Sign the Scottish Petition for ME – anyone can sign
May 1, 2018
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Please support our petition! #MEAction Scotland volunteers have submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament. Anyone from any country can sign! The petition calls on the Scottish Government to undertake a review of the treatment of people with ME in Scotland. The aims of the petition can be summarised as follows: Investment in
The Power of the Shoe
April 26, 2018
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Shoes have been a powerful, unifying symbol for #MillionsMissing since the first global protest in 2016. Demonstrations across the world have displayed rows of shoes to represent what people are missing from their lives due to myalgic encephalomyelitis. The haunting image of rows of shoes symbolizing the effect of this disease on people’s
Sharing UNREST through Library Donations
April 10, 2018
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Activism doesn’t always have to take place in government offices or with signs and shouting; it can take place in quiet libraries. Library systems are the target of Cindy Downey’s efforts to make Jen Brea’s documentary Unrest accessible to all. Downey, of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, donated copies of Unrest to three provincial library
Call-to-Action: Urge your State Health Department to Track ME!
March 19, 2018
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Urge your state health department to track myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome!
Call-to-Action: Please email your state health department and request they track ME/CFS (we have provided the email script for your convenience). A national conference will take place mid-April where states will decide which diseases to track as part of its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
If government officials don’t track ME/CFS, how will they know that it is a problem!
Activism 101: Educate Medical Providers about ME
March 2, 2018
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Most doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers belong to a medical association in order to connect to a community of their peers. These medical associations typically send out regular magazines, newsletters and emails about the latest news and topics of interest to the medical field. A great way to begin to educate an entire community
PACE Trial 'medical scandal' Sparks UK Parliament Debate
February 20, 2018
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Members of Parliament heard about the flaws of the PACE Trial – and its devastating effects on people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) – in a Westminster Hall debate today. Twenty-six MPs attended the debate.
Watch the Westminster Hall debate on PACE
February 19, 2018
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A Westminster Hall debate on the PACE trial will take place on Tuesday, 20th Feb., from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Carol Monaghan MP has secured the debate. Watch the Debate or Attend the Debate Follow the debate on Twitter by following @meactnetuk or @MEActNet. The debate will discuss the flawed science behind PACE, and how it has affected policy
Don't Miss the CFS Advisory Committee Meeting This Wednesday & Thursday
December 4, 2017
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CFSAC is Wednesday (12/13) and Thursday (12/14) of this week! Please stand with us as we continue to urge the U.S. government to fund ME fairly and equally. View the calendar event here. This Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) meeting will take place at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington,