{"id":16483,"date":"2018-05-07T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=16483"},"modified":"2018-05-07T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:02:13","slug":"me-awareness-week-7-13-may-2018-campaign-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-week-7-13-may-2018-campaign-season\/","title":{"rendered":"ME Awareness week 7-13 May 2018 – campaign season!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ME Awareness week 7-13 May 2018 – campaign season!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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International ME Awareness day<\/strong><\/h2>\n

began in 1993. American Tom Hennessey chose the birthdate of Florence Nightingale, as she was stricken by an ME-type illness in her 30s and was often bed-ridden during the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

\"blue<\/strong>Blue Ribbon for ME<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Awareness raising got a\u00a0focus in the UK in 1995 with the start of BRAME<\/a> (Blue Ribbon Awareness for the awareness of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis).<\/p>\n

The colour Blue continued to feature as once a year people died their hair blue, wore blue clothes or lit up public buildings with blue lights.<\/p>\n

Letter writing & the media<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the early days\u00a0 a small number of people were\u00a0interviewed by the media for news features on May 12th and campaign organisers\u00a0invited patients and carers to write letters to politician, health professionals and the media.<\/p>\n

Social media<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"With the increasing popularity of social media many more people, including those who were housebound with ME were able to add blue ribbons, or twibbons<\/a> to their social media pages. Thunderclaps<\/a> became popular as a way\u00a0for a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style. Some\u00a0wrote blog<\/a> posts (short for weblog) about their experiences of ME\u00a0to be published on their own and other people’s blogs\u00a0and Facebook pages.<\/p>\n

Hashtag campaigns<\/strong><\/h2>\n

No campaign takes place these days without a hashtag. A # is a strategy for linking posts and conversations\u00a0on twitter on the same theme, wherever in the world they originate from.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo campaigns<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As more and more people began to own mobile phones it became possible to join awareness raising campaigns by sharing photos of themselves and their friends\u00a0e.g. Wear blue for ME<\/p>\n

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Millions missing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"The biggest global campaign for ME to date\u00a0encourages more people to get involved by inviting them to share photos, not of themselves, but of their shoes as a symbol of the Millions Missing<\/a> out on normal lives through illness.<\/p>\n

Combined with demonstrations, letter writing, petitions, etc. #MillionsMissing\u00a0aims to raise the profile of the need for health equality.<\/p>\n

Join an event near you<\/a> on May 12th e.g. Cardiff, Bristol, Gloucester, Shrewsbury, Liverpool<\/p>\n

Cardiff event:<\/strong> Cardiff City Centre, in front of the central Library, top end of the Hayes between 12 and 4pm. This is situated next to John Lewis and St David\u2019s Shopping Centre.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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