Extract (Committee 1, Question 1)
“There is also evidence that this exploitation of AA is leading to confusion and misrepresentation of AA history and of how the AA the programme works inside AA. Therefore, I think there is a need for AA to respond with statements to inform the general public of these exploitations and misrepresentations of AA. Possible avenues to explore are the placement of statements in national press, online press, on the GSO website and other sites. A more extensive official AA presence on other sites could be considered. Maybe all GSOs all over the world should be encouraged have an entry on other sites. This might go some way to minimise the current high impact of the organisations that are exploiting AA.
Concept
12, warranty five: “And at times the Conference will need to take
certain protective actions especially in the area of Tradition
violations.…….. Individuals, sometimes outside organisations may
try to use the A.A. name for their own private purposes……..Whenever
and however we can, we shall need to inform the general public also;
especially upon misuses of the name Alcoholics Anonymous. This
combination of counter forces can be very discouraging to violators
or would be violators. Under these conditions they soon find their
deviations to be unprofitable or unwise…”
“Of
highest importance would be our relations with medicine and religion.
Under no circumstances must we get into competition with either. If
we appeared to be a new religious sect, we’d certainly be done for.
And if we moved into the medical field, as such, the result would be
the same.” (Bill W. AA Grapevine June 1955, The Language of the
Heart page 150)”
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