| Srgnt Billko 2006-06-25, 9:20 pm |
| "Ron G" <ron@network12.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim and Lisa" <tworkman1@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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> It looks like you are missing Think, Think, Think. These slogans are
> produced by the Grapevine and do not come from the literature produced and
> available from AA World Services.
Very good Ron - but after that it gets a little more complicated.
>Just like many things in Alcoholics
> Anonymous the AA tag gets put onto a lot of names and you hear AA this or
> AA
> that, etc. Many call clubs, AA clubs but in all these cases, **if you
> contact
> AA World Services** and ask them if any of these are official AA
> sanctioned
> items, slogans or what have you, your answer is almost always a reference
> to
> the Preamble.
It is hard to explain in this format but if you try to "contact AAWS" you
are most probably actually contacting the AA General Service Office (GSO),
which is the correct place to get your answers, but technically different
from AAWS.
>
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>
> Anything that is "official" AA material has the official AA World Services
> trademark which Ted H posted in another thread. If the item does NOT have
> the official AA World Services trademark printed on the item, it is NOT AA
> sanctioned or approved.
>
> RonG
Good enough - but, again, there is a little more to it. True that many
things from AA are conference approved and indicated as such with either the
old trademark OR the appropriate verbage. But that doesn't exclude some
other things from being "AA". For instance, in the Grapevine (actually the
AA Grapevine), right underneath the AA Preamble, is "Conference Advisory
Action 1986: "Since each issue of the Grapevine cannot go through the
Conference-approval process, the Conference recognizes the AA Grapevine as
the International journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.
I think it was covered in the Ted H post but - re the trademark - the
current edition of the Big Book does not have it (neither did the 1st and
2nd)
"Box 459" the newsletter published every other month by GSO does not have it
and it reports the budget and activities of AAWS.
"About AA", a newsletter for professionals, ditributed periodically by AAWS
does not have it.
The "Directory of AA Central Offices, Intergroups, and Answering Services"
that I am looking at, copyright by AAWS, does not have it.
Notice Concept 1 (short short form) - As AA groups, we are responsible for
the ....... writing of uniform literature, yada, yada, yada
and somewhere it suggests that AA groups only display material, produced by
AA, the Grapevine, or some other AA entity (as the Deegate Area, local
Intergroup or local General Service Committee).
Don't have time to explain further but I'm sure you get the drift.
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