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AA Grapevine Fact File
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The Grapevine has been
continuously published every month since the first issue appeared in June 1944.
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By charter, the Grapevine
is entirely self-supporting through the sale of the magazine and related
materials. It receives no group contributions sent to the General Service
Office.
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The 1986 General Service
Conference, through an Advisory Action, recognized the AA Grapevine as "the international
monthly journal of Alcoholics Anonymous."
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The Grapevine is produced by a
professional staff of editors, writers, and artists, all members of AA, and the
charter of the General Service
Conference guarantees the editor the right to accept and reject material
for publication.
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AA co-founder Bill W. introduced
the Traditions to the Fellowship in an April 1946 Grapevine article called
"Twelve Suggested Points for AA
Tradition."
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Bill W.
published more than 150 articles in the Grapevine between
1945 and 1970; these were collected in the anthology "The
Language of the 1 Heart (1988)."
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The Preamble was created by one
of the Grapevine's early editors based on the Foreword to the first edition of
the Big Book (Alcoholics ! Anonymous) and it first appeared in the June 1947
issue as a way of telling those outside the Fellowship just what AA was all
about.
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In 1995, at the request of the
General Service Conference, the Grapevine began publishing a Spanish-language
version called La Viña.
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