A year from now? This summer?

Any ideas?

Where do you want to have the march? Is it something you wants statewide, regional or national? How big do you want the march?

A large national march needs a minimum of a year to plan. If there isn't a strong network in place, you my need longer. I knew about the March for Women's Lives 2 years before it happened.

A statewide march can probably be done within a few months...unless you are in a state like NY or CA.

Has anyone ever done a march before?

Where do you go to get the permits?

Has anyone thought about contacting DEET to sponsor?

I'm just throwing ideas out.

From what I've been told - a March is quite an overwhelming undertaking.

I'm not saying that to squash the idea. I'm actually all for it. I just think if we're serious about this, we have to go in with eyes open.

I would suggest that anyone who is serious about doing a March - that you should contact one of the major advocacy groups and press the issue - find out what you can.

If that's not successful - contact some of the other types of activist groups who have conducted successful Marches & find out HOW they accomplished it - see if someone can give you the inside scoop!

I'll help out in any way I can - although I'm staying rather busy working now on a new website - AND learning about advocacy stuff - AND adjusting to Mepron. Yipee.

Keep the ideas flowing....brainstorming is good.

Perhaps we can start organizing at the Hope to Heal LYme conference in May.

Whose gonna be there? Maybe we could meet for dinner and start to organize?

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We don't have to have a lot of people--just a fresh idea that will attract media attention.

Doc. Wiseass, those are good ideas and starting points.

Linda, you have some clever ideas...there has to be a way to actually put something together that would be effective yet feasible.

did i spell that right? my spelling is terrible now that i have lyme ;-(
Sh**! The cognitive/neuro stuff is the killer...i just can't seem to remember words anymore...I feel like I've either lost 50 IQ points or I'm drunk or both!

I don't think marches for *any* cause, right left or center, get the kind of coverage I'm assuming they did in the sixties. It's as if they are old hat. The media has learned to ignore them.

I'd don't have the answer. So far , no one does. But I'll put out a suggestion. Designate a day in the next couple of weeks -- maybe May 24 -- and everybody write an email that they send a number of the different media outlets, politicians and the CDC and NIH. It could be something short, for those who are too tired to write. Something like "It's Lyme Awareness Month -- what are you doing to cover it? To deal with it?" I could put up a post with contact addresses.