GSO (GB) Leads Members Away from Traditions

See GSO website “Event Calendar” April 2014

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/Members/Event-Calendar

“San Diego Spring Round Up” 
http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/

Location: Town & Country Resort Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108 

Agenda
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Comedian and Ice Cream Social with Starbucks Coffee and Häagen-Dazs Ice cream - $30  

http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event1.asp 

Friday April 18, 2014

1/2 - Day Deep Sea Fishing Trip aboard the Chubasco II - $45 
http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event2.asp 

Friday April 18, 2014

Golf Tournament, Riverwalk Golf Club  -   $75 
http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event3.asp 

Saturday April 19, 2014

5K and 10K Fun Run/Walk- $20    
http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event4.asp 

Saturday April 19, 2014,

Tennis Tournament, Peninsula Tennis Club - $15 
http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event5.asp 

Saturday April 19, 2014

A.A. Breakfast/ Speaker - $36  

http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event8.asp

Al-Anon Luncheon / Speaker -$38 

http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event9.asp

A.A. Banquet / Speaker - $49 

http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/event7.asp

San Diego Spring Roundup Radio Show!

Keith L of Midtown AA Group (note the promotional pop up of “Tough Love”)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dailyrecovery/2013/06/21/then-and-now--keith-l-23-san-diego-spring-roundup-400

San Diego Spring Roundup convention CDs for sale $7.00 each or- $60.00 for full set

http://store.12steptapes.com/36thsandiegospringroundup.aspx

San Diego Spring Roundup Commemorative Merchandise

T Shirts $13 Ladies V Neck $17 Sweatshirt $25 Embroidered polo $22 Souvenir Coffee cup $7 Souvenir Travel coffee mug $12

http://www.sandiegospringroundup.com/register.asp

(Registration now closed)

Comment: Another promotional event that doesn’t say it is an AA event, but is clearly targeted at AA members. There’s loads of dosh to be made out of gullible alcoholics isn’t there? Just look at all those $$$$! We looked over the Roundup website to see what bona fide AA body is organising it and could only find a PO Box and a number of anonymous email addresses. While the gullible jump on a plane this Easter weekend to get fleeced and might even come back to the UK feeling grateful for it, what has happened to guardianship of traditions at GSO? Have they not heard of Traditions Five and Six?

http://www.aa.org/twelveandtwelve/en_tableofcnt.cfm

Perhaps not?

For more information, email gso@alcoholics–anonymous.org.uk where helpful staff can advise you about the General Warranties of Conference. Here’s an extract from Warranty Five:

“Privately, however, we can inform Traditions-violators that they are out of order. When they persist, we can follow up by using such other resources of persuasion as we may have, and these are often considerable…” (The AA Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service, p. 69) http://www.aa.org/pdf/products/en_bm-31.pdf

GSO staff can also advise you on how to submit a question/topic for Conference. If you’re stuck for ideas, here’s a suggestion for Conference 2015: “Should GSO (GB) use its website to indirectly promote Starbucks coffee, Häagen-Dazs ice cream and various other commercial enterprises. Yes or No?” Conference questions can be submitted directly to the Conference Co-ordinator at gso@alcoholics–anonymous.org.uk or via your local GSR, with appropriate background. (Hint, hint)

Now then, why would an alcoholic pay another $20 to have a fun run/walk, when the sane do it for free?

To find the answer to this intriguing question Google “Jogging in New York,” and then see the Washington Post’s “Midtown AA Group Leads Members Away from Traditions” http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/07/midtown_group_aa_group_leads_m.html and “The Dark Legacy of a Rehab Cult” http://www.thefix.com/content/aa-cults-synanon-legacy0009?page=all

Cheerio,

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)