Tradition Twelve places principles before personalities. It reminds members that anonymity is also a practice of humility inside the Fellowship, not only a rule for public media.
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Tradition Twelve places principles before personalities. It reminds members that anonymity is also a practice of humility inside the Fellowship, not only a rule for public media.
Tradition Ten leaves outside issues outside AA meetings and service bodies. Members may hold strong personal views, but the Fellowship does not adopt those views as its own.
ICYPAA, the International Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous, began in 1958. It grew from the simple fact that young alcoholics were finding recovery too.
One of the early prison AA groups began at San Quentin in 1942. Corrections work has remained an important way members carry the message to people behind the walls.
Tradition Eleven asks AA to use attraction rather than promotion in public communication. It is one reason AA public information work tries to be clear, modest, and careful.
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