PROTECTION FOR ALL: At the personal level, anonymity provides protection for all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard often of special importance to newcomers. At the level of press,…
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“ACTIVE GUARDIANS”: To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition is a constant and practical…
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ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION: Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice.…
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THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT: In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they…
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THE HAZARDS OF PUBLICITY: People who symbolize causes and ideas fill a deep human need. We of A.A. do not question that. But we do have to soberly face the…
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