Facets of ME: Centering ME During the Holidays
December 8, 2022
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Welcome to the final #FacetsOfME for 2022, where we focus on centering ME during the holidays!
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Just In Time for the School Year: A New Pediatric Pacing Guide
August 2, 2022
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#MEAction is excited to share a new and much-needed resource just in time for back to school! We are so thankful to have our allies at Long Covid Families join us in developing the Pacing and Management Guide for Pediatric ME/CFS and Long COVID. Access the New Pediatric Pacing Guide Our Pacing and Management Guide
Accessible Ways for People with ME to Get Involved in Racial Justice
June 5, 2020
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Accessible Ways that People with ME can get Involved in Racial Justice #MEAction has always focused on empowering and supporting our community. We know that many people with ME are wanting to show support for racial justice and it is often difficult to know how to engage from home. Here are some accessible ways that
Your #MEAction guide to the holidays: with Pinboards!
December 7, 2019
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The holidays are a stressful time. Between gift-giving (and buying), travel, cooking, decorating, and guests in the home – not to mention winter colds, increased heating bills, and challenges in local travel like snow and icy roads – it’s no wonder that many people emerge from the hazy shade of winter completely exhausted. That goes
ME Friendly Forms of Escapism, and How Best to Undertake Them
May 29, 2019
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Jack Croxall is an author, scriptwriter and blogger living in Nottinghamshire, UK. He fights ME both in life and in prose. Follow him on Twitter, on his blog, and view his books. When you’re dealing with the symptoms of ME every minute of every day, it’s obviously difficult to forget that you’re sick. But I
A song for ME: Blowin’ in the Wind
April 24, 2018
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The following arrangement of Blowin’ in the Wind, with alternative lyrics about the struggles faced by people with ME, is performed by patients and their carers from around the world: If you would like to play and/or sing this song at a #MillionsMissing protest on 12 May, or at any other event, please use
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
Host a dinner to fundraise for ME/CFS researchers
February 15, 2017
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“Dining for Dollars” is a fund raising idea from the AIDS era and we hope to spread the idea by posting the results of our own dinner held this past weekend.
Visual ideas for your #MillionsMissing protest
September 19, 2016
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Have ideas on how to improve this document? Email [email protected] [pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“Politics is theater. It doesn’t matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, “I’m here, pay attention to me.” – Harvey Milk[/pullquote] Protests are opportunities to grab attention, to crystallize all of the emotion (anger, rage, grief, loss,
Wheelchair users in Bolivia suspended from bridge in protest
February 28, 2016
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A small group of wheelchair users suspended themselves from a bridge in Bolivia to protest treatment of disabled people and demand higher government benefits. Received international news coverage. Read more