AA Anonymity

(Announcement for reading at meetings open to the public)

There are some here who are not familiar with our Tradition of personal anonymity at the public level:

“Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain anonymity a the level of press, radio, and films.”

Thus we ask that AA Speakers and AA members not be photographed, videotaped, or identified by full name on audiotapes or in any published or broadcast reports of our meetings, including those reports on the Internet or other new media technologies.

The assurance of anonymity is essential in our efforts to help other problem drinkers who may wish to share our recovery program with us. And our Tration of anonymity reminds us that AA principles come before personalities.