AAWS complaint against innocent AA members

See our comment at bottom of this page. NO Sponsor

www.aarecovery.com is still online. But they were forced to remove
AA's basic text from their web site. This was the price that had to be paid
for survival. AAWS' complaint says aarecovery.com "is intended to
and does confuse the relevant purchasing public into believing that
Complainant [AAWS] maintains, or has approved , endorsed or is sponsor
of or is otherwise associated with respondent's web site at aarecovery.com"

1. If AA groups and AA members are not associated with AAWS, Inc. it appears to be an outside enterprise according to AA tradition six. Why then is AAWS Inc. still allowed by the groups to use the AA name at all?

2. AAWS Inc. is only concerned about the "relevant purchasing public" and not about the still suffering alcoholic. This flies into the face of AA tradition five and eight and nine.

3. AA members and groups are one thing and the "purchasing public" is something else.
If AAWS, Inc. sells AA literature to somebody outside the fellowship for a profit
AAWS, Inc. accepts outside contributions. This is a blatant violation of AA tradition seven.
It is also a violation of AAWS' own bylaws.
It says there on page 2 "Nothing herein contained, however, shall be deemed to give the
corporation the right to solicit funds or to engage in non-charitable activities." Their legal
actions are not a charitable activity for sure!

Shame on AAWS Inc. and their multi-million dollar profit oriented schemes!