Category: How-to guides

Hosting a Screening of Unrest? Learn How to Talk to the Press

If you are hosting a screening of Unrest in your community, you will want to reach out to your local press about covering the screening. Below are some training resources to help you prepare to speak to the media. These tools were developed by #MEAction for the #MillionsMissing Day of Action in Sept. 2017 in

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How to Build a Protest

Learn from the success of the #MillionsMissing protests that galvanized dozens of cities around the world to take to the streets and demand their governments stop the neglect of people with ME. Read the full guide here.  

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City Proclamation for ME: How-To Guide and Case Study

Timbre Livesay and Mary Dimmock contributed to this article. This is an outline of the steps a California ME advocate, Mark Camenzind, took for getting city proclamations for ME. Below the steps is a template you can use for your own city proclamation. Feel free to adapt either for your city’s needs. As this is

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State Resolution for ME: How-to Guide and Case Study

Rivka Solomon and Mary Dimmock contributed to this article This document includes the steps ME advocates are taking to get a State Resolution for ME passed in their State House (aka State Assembly or State Legislature). It also includes a draft template of a resolution for you to use in your state. Why pursue a state

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ME Activist Basics: Bird-Dogging and YOU!

Bird-dog: (verb) search out or pursue with dogged determination. Contact with elected officials at town hall meetings cannot be overvalued. Handfuls of bird-doggers attend meetings around the country and change the course of history everyday.  Never heard of bird-dogging?  Bird-dogging is a strategy used by activists who seek out elected officials, pin them down with

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Announcing MEpedia: a knowledge base for ME science and history

What if we could take all of the information we have learned from all of those years of hundreds of people reading and writing about thousands of news and research articles across all of our forums and blogs and Facebook pages, and create one massive, interlinked, and structured knowledge base?

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Debunking the myth of the militant minority

In the British media, ME activists who have opposed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) are often been portrayed as an unreasonable, militant “minority.” Members of the #MEAction Science and Treatment Policy and Media Working Groups have drafted this fact sheet to explain the real reasons why ME patients are opposed to CBT and

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Promote your Action at #MEAction: Why and How

Why should you promote your action at #MEAction? This article is part of an ongoing series highlighting different #MEAction features and how to use them. For more how-to and informational articles, please see all the articles on the resources page. You are doing incredible things for the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) community and we

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