This newsgroup had previously moved in 2006 due to flaming, personal attacks and other ill behavior. The new group has become a victim of the same flaming, personal attacks and other ill behaviors. Therefore, this group is once again active. Unlike the other newsgroup this newsgroup requires that sponsored members apply and are approved by the moderators and that they conduct themselves with civility.

This is a minority opinion newsgroup about alcoholics anonymous and welcomes contributions about AAWS and their corporations that conflict with routine AAWS rhetoric and official views.

Our Mission: We, of Alcoholics Anonymous feel nothing is of greater importance to the future of the global AA fellowship -that is the local groups and individual alcoholics worldwide- than to recover and unselfishly help others to recover from alcoholism. This includes the necessity to perform God's will to the best of our understanding and gain deep spiritual experiences in order to become and keep sober. It is our duty to preserve and practice our basic AA principles as outlined by our first hundred members in our basic textbook. We offer our basic textbook for free download in various languages for you to carry it on as we do. Freely have ye received, freely give ... !

We feel committed to watch the way in which incorporated legal entities with "Alcoholics Anonymous" in their name perform their self appointed role either as servants or as a government. There is much reason to assume some of such organizations have left our common ground, abandoned major AA principles and replaced God by money, property, prestige, and authority. Thus part of our mission is to serve as an independent central point of reference about what AAWS Inc. in New York and their related organizations are and are not doing, to make our web site a kind of hill overlooking the often chaotic information lan