Advocacy Effort ME Action Network is Now Live

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Created by Jen Brea the ME Action Network is now live

#MEAction is an international network of patients empowering each other to fight for health equality for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

#MEAction is not structured like a traditional advocacy organization or patients’ association. We are primarily a platform, designed to empower patients advocates and organizations, wherever they might be, with the technological tools and training to do what they are already doing – better.

We were founded with the belief that while we may find it difficult to advocate for ourselves in the physical world, in the virtual world, we can be an unstoppable force.

• events and event calendars (tools for organizing a day of protests, a month of film screenings)
• a membership directory to allow activists to connect and find others with skills or resources
• the Action Center – a stack exchange-style tool for proposing new actions
• user-submitted news and opinion pieces (both original pieces and links to content hosted elsewhere)