C.A. WORLD SERVICE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SUMMARY MINUTES OF MEETING QUARTERLY BOARD MEETING
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Since this report is a confidential C.A. document, for members only, it may contain members’ full names. This usage to facilitate communication within the fellowship was approved by the 1990 WS Conference. Such confidential use does not, of course, violate in any way our Tradition on anonymity in public communications media (press, radio, TV, etc.).
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WSBT 3rd Quarterly Meeting Minutes
2019 C.A. World Service Conference
August 25 – September 1, 2019
Los Angeles, California
WSBT Quarterly began on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
Moment of silence and Serenity Prayer
Personal Sharing (approx 3-5 minutes each)
Roll call
- George Mooney – ANRT
- Chris Redd – ASRT
- Jason Laurence – TAL1
- Kerry Wesley – SWRT
- Kevin Murphy – WSOT
- Yvette Holman – WST
- Tom Phelan – PSRT
- Sarah Taylor – ERT/WSBT Assistant Secretary
- Vanessa Matthews Jackson – TAL2/ WSBT Secretary
- Wade Staples – PNRT/WSBT Vice Chair
- Jeannette Johnson – MWRT / WSBT Chair
Reading of the 12 Traditions (Tom)
Read long form of Tradition 9 and discuss (George)
Read Concept 12 and discuss (Kevin)
Chair’s opening remarks: (Jeannette) We have a lot of work to do this quarterly.
WSBT Officers reports: (Attachment A)
Chair (Jeannette)
Vice-Chair (Wade)
Secretary (Vanessa)
Assistant Secretary (Sarah)
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Motion to approve the WSBT Officers’ reports. Seconded.
Motion passed.
Trustee reports (Attachment B)
Atlantic North Regional Trustee (George)
We are having a Regional Convention in Niagara Falls, NY, March 2020.
Atlantic South Regional Trustee (Chris)
There was not a 2022 WS Convention report for this quarter.
Midwest Regional Trustee (Jeannette)
What are problems if any in your region? Low meeting attendance and lack of people doing service work. Kelsey from the Ohio Area has become very active with WSCPI as a result of the PI Road Show presentation that I gave at the Ohio Area Convention in April.
Pacific North Regional Trustee (Wade)
NADCP – We had some contacts. Rose followed up with one in Utah. BC Area
Convention, Southern Alberta is having a convention.
Pacific South Regional Trustee (Tom)
I have not heard from Antelope Valley since they submitted their May report.
Southwest Regional Trustee (Kerry)
Two areas are putting in bids to host the WS Conference in 2022 and 2023.
European Regional Trustee (Sarah)
Trustee At Large 1 (Jason)
Trustee At Large 2 (Vanessa)
World Service Trustee Report (Yvette)
World Service Office Trustee Report (Kevin)
Sarah would like to see Areas get a code for their 7th tradition donations in order to help track it.
(Questions and discussion)
Motion made to have all conference committee expenditures over $250.00 approved by the lead trustee of that committee. Seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Motion to approve Trustee Reports. Seconded.
Motion passed unanimously.
Meeting ended at 11:09 p.m. August 26th meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m.
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WSBT Trustee At-Conference Reports (Attachment C)
- Atlantic North Regional Trustee (George)
- Atlantic South Regional Trustee (Chris)
- Midwest Regional Trustee (Jeannette)
- Pacific North Regional Trustee (Wade)
- Pacific South Regional Trustee (Tom)
- Southwest Regional Trustee (Kerry)
- European Regional Trustee (Jason)
- Trustee At Large 1 (Jason)
- Trustee At Large 2 (Vanessa)
- World Service Trustee Report (Yvette)
- World Service Office Trustee Report (Kevin)
Motion to approve the At Conference Trustee reports. Seconded.
Motion passed unanimously.
WSBT Subcommittee reports – lead member listed first (Attachment D)
Finance (Kerry/All)
There are line items that need to be corrected. We have a responsibility to the fellowship as principal financial planners. The PI Committee overspent their budget on the PI Summit. We are putting new systems in place with the previous motion to approve all committee expenditures over $250.00. The WSBT Financial Oversight Guidelines will be updated and added to the WSBT Orientation documents.
Lengthy Discussion
Legal (Vanessa/Yvette)
Updated and revised Legal Sub-committee report.
NewsGram (Chris)
We will add a marker to the WSBT to write a NewsGram article quarterly. There is a Trustee Corner in the NewsGram. Chris will write the next article in the Trustee Corner in the NewsGram.
TEC (Vanessa/George)
(Lengthy discussion)
(Executive Session)
Long-term Planning (Jason/All)
Orientation (Wade/All)
International Structure and Development (Wade, Kevin, Jason, Sarah)
TNC (Yvette, Kerry, Sarah, Jason, Vanessa, Wade)
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Questions regarding the 2021 New York contract.
Trustee Outreach (Jeannette)
World Service Conference (Yvette/Jeannette)
External Communications (Vanessa/Jason)
Motion to approve the WSBT Sub-Committee reports except Finance. Seconded.
Motion passed.
Reviewed interview questions for WSOB, Randy Moss, Chair, Linda Francisco, DOO, and Michael Towler, WSOB Treasurer.
Motion to approve the WSBT Finance Sub-committee report with changes.
Seconded. Motion passed.
Trustee Conference Committee reports – lead member listed first (Attachment E)
- Conference (Vanessa, Sarah)
- Public Information (Jason, Chris)
- Hospitals & Institutions (Sarah, Wade)
- Literature, Chips & Formats (Tom, Jason)
- Structure & Bylaws (Kevin, Kerry)
- Convention (Jeannette, Yvette)
- Archive (Yvette, Vanessa)
- Unity (George, Kevin)
- Finance (Kerry, Tom)
- Information Technologies (Wade, George)
(Questions and discussion)
Motion to approve the Trustee Conference Committee reports. Seconded.
Motion passed unanimously.
CAWS Convention updates (Attachment F)
- CAWS 2019 (Sarah)
- CAWS 2020 (Kerry) To date 394 room nights booked.
- CAWS 2021 (George)
- CAWS 2022 (Chris)
The Convention will not have coffee. There is a Starbucks onsite. Concerns were expressed regarding the room night commitment.
(Questions and Discussion)
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Motion made to approve the CAWS Convention reports minus the 2022 Convention.
Seconded.
PLACE MARKER – BUSINESS ITEMS
MARKER 2006.02.20 Copyright and trademark protection (Yvette/Vanessa) – To remain on agenda for quarterly review
| Matter No. | Country | Mark | Renewal Due: | |
| 59628-0001 | Canada | WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE FREE | September 30, 2027 | |
| 59628-0002 | U.S. | COCAINE ANONYMOUS | September 4, 2020 | |
| 59628-0003 | Canada | COCAINE ANONYMOUS | December 13, 2021 | |
| 59628-0004 | U.S. | CA | December 20, 2028 | |
| 59628-0005 | Canada | CA | June 12, 2022 | |
| 59628-0006 | U.S. | CA HOPE FAITH COURAGE (logo) | April 24, 2020 | |
| 59628-0007 | Canada | CA HOPE FAITH COURAGE (logo) | August 9, 2021 | |
| 59628-0008 | U.S. | WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE FREE | April 2, 2026 | |
| 59628-0009 | Europe | COCAINE ANONYMOUS | April 1, 2026 | |
| 59628-0010 | Europe | CA HOPE FAITH COURAGE (logo) | July 26, 2026 | |
| 59628-0011 | Europe | CA | November 15, 2021 | |
| 59628-0012 | South Africa | COCAINE ANONYMOUS | ||
| 59628-0013 | South Africa | CA | June 30, 2027 | |
| 59628-0014 | South Africa | CA HOPE FAITH COURAGE (logo) | June 30, 2027 | |
Attorney invoice/letter regarding South Africa Trademark (Yvette)
We received the registration from our attorney for the C.A. block letters logo and C.A. Hope Faith Courage (logo).
The board would like to see a copy of the director’s liability insurance.
MARKER 2006.08.13 Signature of annual corporate documents (All)
To be completed @ at Winter Quarterly
MARKER 2009.05.09 Status of WSO – (Yvette/Kevin)
The WSO office is in good shape. We have Michael Towler, our new WSOB Treasurer. We are selling more chips and literature. We have great people on the WSOB. The WSO is doing great with day-to-day operations.
MARKER – TEC – (Vanessa/George)
Discussed the report earlier in the minutes.
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MARKER – FINANCIAL OVERVIEW – (Kerry)
Discussed financial spreadsheets and review budgets.
MARKER – LONG TERM PLANNING – (Jason)
- Projects Chart update
Items from the WS Convention Long-term Planning Meeting
- Tradition 7 collections and World Contribution Programme – WSBT
- Translations – WSBT
- Empowering Regions – WSBT
- Making Conference more accessible – LTP Project Chart
Motion made to have items #1, 2 & 3 remain with the WSBT, and move item #4 to the LTP Project Chart. Seconded.
Motion passed.
Meeting ended at 10 :45 p.m.
Meeting began at 9 :00 a.m. August 27, 2019.
OLD BUSINESS
- 2018 Taxes (Kerry)
The 2018 taxes have been completed and signed.
- SR14
- WSCC SR 14 Material Conference Call (Jeannette/All)
(Reference: S&B 2018-10 From Kevin M. WSOT (In-Conference) Add a new standing rule:
“No material may be submitted for SR14 priority except by vote of a Conference Committee.”
======== This is to prevent the “SR14” process from being used to bypass SR13.)
- WSBT Motion passed at 1906 Quarterly (Jeannette/All)
MOTION: That we have the lead on the conference committee take a statement from the WSBT that: We are concerned about material that doesn’t meet SR13 requirements being sent out, specifically the “Master List” and also that a conference call was held to discuss these and other items in the SR14 package without the Regional Trustees being notified prior.
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- Is there any SR14 Material of WSBT Concern (Jeannette/All)
Kevin referred this to S&B. A motion will be going to conference for clarity. In response to S&B 2018-10L
S&B 2018-10: Add a new standing rule: “No material may be submitted for SR14 priority except by vote of a Conference Committee.”
Motion to add additional sentence on Page 48 of the WSM to SR-13: Any motion made at the Conference which changes the WSC structure a WSC committee structure or which has a significant effect upon the World Service Conference, a World Service Committee, the World Service Manual or C.A. as a whole must be referred to the appropriate committee prior to consideration. Except for material previously submitted to a committee under SR-13, no referral may be submitted for SR-14 priority without the vote of a conference committee.
- Non-Addict Trustee Roles and Responsibilities (Jason)
- Q2 Previous Motion – Possible reconsideration of motion due to wording. (Jeannette/All)
MOTION: That we retrieve the process for making any changes to the Steps, Traditions, or Charter 10 from S&B.
Seconded. Motion Passed Unanimously.
Kevin will work with S&B on this issue.
- Archiving WSBT Minutes (Tom) Tom will work on this project.
- WSBT Guidelines (Wade)
Wade will work on updating the WSBT Guidelines.
- Trustee Orientation Documents (Wade)
Wade updated the WSBT Assistant Secretary roles and responsibilities.
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- Interview Questions for WSOB Officers
- Randy,
- Michael T,
- Linda,
NEW BUSINESS
Further to my email to you dated 13th May, as you can see below, I was assured of a response within 30 days. I wanted to provide a gentle reminder that I have not heard back from you guys and I believe that perhaps as the issues I raised have not been addressed, they have now been rather compounded by the letter from the Conference Chair being sent out to the entire fellowship in the SR14 delegate mailing. I appreciate you all have busy lives and your service to the fellowship is huge, however, I have a couple of issues newly created since not hearing back and would just bullet point them here for your consideration:
- Upon receipt of your email, I informed North London District (where I am Vice Chair), that you were going to respond to us and they were eagerly awaiting the response, due to the serious concerns about the upturned triangle structure being threatened by the actions of the Conference Chair. Now they have been sent the letter, which caused offence in the first place, as part of the SR14 mailing. It would appear that the Conference Chair is now some kind of self-appointed CEO of the fellowship – sending out directives to the groups from his service position. It does seem that perhaps the fact you are ignoring several requests for clarity (by myself and other European members), that you are indeed complicit.
- I know that many of you have important professional positions, and I am sure you appreciate the age-old idea that when you say you will do something, you do it – or do not say you will. This is also something we encourage sponsees and newcomers to adhere to, as part of our recovery – there was no requirement to give the 30-day assurance, but having done so, I would ask that you please try and adhere to something around that ball park? It is embarrassing for me to go back to North London District and say our Trustees have still not responded whilst not just the regions now, but the groups are also asked to read the letter. Or – perhaps, as a possible solution, we could have some parity here, and all of us be allowed to contact the entire fellowship with our opinion in advance of anything we feel we would like to affect?!!
I would just reiterate that I do appreciate the work you are all doing, but feel that this issue is incredibly important, and would appreciate a response to my letter and the questions raised, as soon as possible, please, so I can take this to our District and to
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London Area. I have also cc’d in the Chair of UK Area, and our delegate, so we can all have some clarity when it is received.
Thank you in advance
Regards
Claire
Approved Response – from WSBT Unsolicited letter From WCC to European Region
—Original Message—–
From: “wsbt@ca.org” <wsbt@ca.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 11:03pm
To: “Claire Crowther” <clairecrowther100@gmail.com>
Cc: “mwrt@ca.org” <mwrt@ca.org>, “pnrt@ca.org” <pnrt@ca.org>, tal2@ca.org
Subject: Re: Unsolicited letter From World Conference Chair to European Region – Response Request
Dear Claire,
Thank you for the inquiry dated May 13, 2019 and for the gentle reminder dated June 19, 2019. We apologize for the delay in our response.
In your initial inquiry you raise these questions:
- Was this letter submitted to the WSBT prior to it be sent out to the Region?
- If so, could you please let us know how you felt this appropriate in line with safeguarding the upside-down triangle of service? – The letter itself and also the way it was sent, as if it is a fact,
- If not, why was someone allowed the airtime on this, as it is merely an opinion? It has caused a lot of upset and it is really down to someone not adhering to protocol by the looks of it?
- Does the WSBT seriously have no opinion on this?!
- If this is the case, as we were informed by the ERT, could you please provide an explanation for me to take back to groups within the Region – as to why you would not have an opinion on something so serious and potentially damaging to the Fellowship?
- If this was not the case, can you please provide details as to safeguards in place to prevent this happening again along with a retraction of the statements by the Trustee, to put the Fellowship straight perhaps?
With respect to your first question, no, the letter you reference was not submitted to the WSBT prior to being sent out to the Region. However, in reports from the two trustees serving on the WSC Conference committee the board was informed that the conference chair was considering sending out a letter to respond to numerous enquiries he had been receiving.
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With respect to your second question, this board believes that in accordance with the World Service Manual, areas from which approval is required for a petition to be submitted are the areas petitioning to form the new region.
You also had a third question. You asked that we confirm what processes are put in place for ourselves to safeguard the fellowship. In our opening report to the conference this year, we will be requesting that all members observe the protocols that are in place for distributing materials to our fellowship. We discussed this matter at length on this board.
Further, from the General Warranties of the Conference:
“In all its proceedings, the World Service Conference shall observe the spirit of the C.A. Tradition, taking great care that the Conference never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power….
“that all important decisions be reached by discussion, vote, and whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that no Conference action ever be personally punitive or an incitement to public controversy; that though the Conference may act for the service of Cocaine Anonymous, it shall never perform any acts of government; and that, like the Fellowship of Cocaine Anonymous which it serves, the Conference itself will always remain democratic in thought and action.
It is our hope that the spiritual principles that inform our fellowship are looked to in all matters to guide the actions of all our members in service to one another.
Sincerely,
WSBT
CORRESPONDENCE
From: “Steve Watkins” <watnoneleft@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:52am
To: wsbt@ca.org
Cc: ert@ca.org
Subject: Re: unsolicited letter from World Conference Chair – Response
Hi Guys , Further to the above mentioned letter and the response from the WSBT I would be grateful for some guidance.
I am being asked as CAUK Area Chair if I will be sending a copy of the WSBT response out to the fellowship on the Area email loop prior to our Area Assembly on the 3rd August to “Set the record straight”
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The response is already out around the fellowship, but if the protocol mentioned has already been broken, breaking it again to advise the fellowship of the initial break is not the way forward. I hope that makes sense
Thank you for your continued service & support Steve W
CAUK Area Chair
Approved Response
Ref: Q3/01 2019/7/4
Steve–
Sorry for the delay in getting this to you. We hope it finds you in time for your Area meeting. Two things come to mind in your question:
The protocol referred to in our response to Claire C (please see copy attached) is described in Standing Rule 21 of the Conference Charter and can be found on page 49 of the World Service Manual:
“Materials to be distributed to the fellowship by World Service Conference Committees shall be approved on the Conference floor prior to distribution with the exception of financial budgets.”
We feel this does not apply. While this would seem to bind Conference officers and Conference Committees, it does not bind individual members. The Conference directs none but itself. Items that HAVE been disseminated can continue to be disseminated.
With respect to communications between your Board of Trustees and members of the Fellowship (with a few privacy exceptions) the Board does not require that its responses be held confidential. However, in disseminating them to the Fellowship, we ask that the ENTIRE sequence of correspondence be used. Personal information should be redacted. This protects the rights and concerns of all involved.”
Sincerely,
Your WSBT
CORRESPONDENCE
—–Original Message—–
From: “Justine Kite” <justinekite@hotmail.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 3:24am
To: “wsbt@ca.org” <wsbt@ca.org>
Cc: “ERT@ca.org” <ERT@ca.org>
Subject: Handling of the new European region petition
To whom it may concern,
I originally sent an email to the WSBT on 3rd June 2019 but haven’t received a
response. However, on checking, it appears that the email address I used was incorrect so I
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hereby write once again but with updated thoughts since the debacle of the letter landed to the European Region.
Since writing my original e-mail, the situation has changed but I would still like to express my thoughts on how I feel as an active member of CA (home group – Cracknell, Berkshire UK – Monday evening – 20:00 to 21:30) of the handling of this petition to date.
When I first saw the letter from the conference chair, I was outraged. The letter expressed a view that is not laid out in black and white in our world service manual and that many of our members read and view very differently. We are all open to guidance but not dictatorship and I thought our leaders are but trusted servants – they do not govern.
The letter has caused a great deal of dis-unity at every level of our service structure and having had the privilege of attending the European assembly in May 19, this was clearly evident.
I disagree entirely that not only every group in the proposed new region and also within the existing region needs to vote on the matter for it to be heard. This is simply ludicrous as not all groups are aware of the structure or interested in the petition and are simply there to help the new or still suffering addict. Most groups would not know or be interested in voting so this automatically prejudices the petition.
I believe the conference chair has over stepped his authority with the letter and opinion and the kindest and most loving thing to do would have let the region do its own business without causing mayhem and dis-unity and let the fellowship decide in the SR14 process how they perceive the world service manual and the petition. The fellowship is the voice of our members. The letter has caused some bad taste and raised some questions with many members, myself included to the point of saying the ‘upside down triangle’ is no longer what it should be and other 12 step fellowships appear to be more appealing. I certainly don’t want to leave CA – the fellowship that I’m so passionate about and saved my life but this sort of behavior and dictatorship will have this effect if we don’t allow CA to work in its purest form.
Since the conference agenda has been published in the SR14 mailing, I am yet again dismayed to see where it is located on the agenda. Leaving it to Sunday morning
is extremely disappointing and yet again backs up the thought that the petition process is flawed. As a member of this region, I feel that this is the biggest item on the agenda and effects >750 groups. I would like to see this moved on the agenda and I hope that the WSBT can help with this.
I want to conclude this email by saying that I appreciate you all along with the conference chair do a lot of very good work and put in a lot of hours and for this, I am truly grateful. We have a wonderful fellowship and I hope that this continues in the future and we as a collective can continue to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
ILAS
Justine Kite
Member of Cocaine Anonymous
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Approved Response
From: “wsbt@ca.org” <wsbt@ca.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 12:40am
To: “Justine Kite” <justinekite@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: “wsbt@ca.org” <wsbt@ca.org>, “pnrt@ca.org” <pnrt@ca.org>, tal2@ca.org
Subject: RE: Handling of the new European region petition
Hi Justine,
Thank you for your letter and considered opinion. The Board is not inclined to take any action that can be addressed on the Conference floor.
According to the WSM, the agenda that sets the order of business is the Chair’s sole prerogative. However, any member may make a motion to take an item of business out of order, and if this passes the item involved is taken up at once.
Sincerely,
World Service Board of Trustees, Cocaine Anonymous
CORRESPONDENCE
ref : Q3/03 2019/7/11. Custom Shirts.
From: “CAWSO” <cawso@ca.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:02am
To: wsbt@ca.org
Subject: FW: Custom Shirts. –
—–Original Message—–
From: Heather Courneya [mailto:sales@customtzlhc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 5:34 PM
To: cawso@ca.org
Subject: Custom Shirts
Hello!
My name is Heather Courneya and I own a recovery store called Custom Tz in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
I print all kinds of different recovery items for AA, NA and Alanon. I am licensed and registered with NA world. I would like to add CA to our line up of items! Is there anything I need to do in order to make custom items such as coffee mugs and t-shirts?
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you,
Heather Courneya
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Custom Tz
2069 McCulloch Blvd.
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
928-855-7587
Sent from my iPhone=
CORRESPONDENCE
Ref: Q3/03 2019/7/31
Subject: RE: Urgent Inquire cocaine anonymous/ Trademark Infringe Problems (To Principal/CEO)
Date: 31-07-2019 07:41
From: lee <lee@govidc.org.cn>
To: helpline <helpline@cauk.org.uk>
Reply-To: admin <admin@ipnet.hk>, lee <lee@govidc.org.cn>
Dear Principal,
Nice day. We are an organization specialized in dealing with Internet Copyright dispute and Trademark Registration in Asia.
Yesterday, one company named Mircury Investment Co. Ltd applied for the Internet Trademark “cocaineanonymous” and some Domains with us. After checking, we found it conflicted with your name and trademark.
As we have nice cooperation’s before, we need confirm with you if you consigned that company to register these? Or are they your subbranch? Because the Domains and Internet Trademark may relate to the usufruct of your trademark, pls give us a reply ASAP.
Best Regards,
Lee Gao
Manager of Auditing Department
———————————————————————————————-
Hong Kong IP Network Limited
Web: www.hk-ip.org
T: +852 30697409
F: +852 30697409
E: admin@ipnet.hk
Add: UNIT 3A 20/F FAR EAST CONSORTIUM BLDG 121 DES VOEUX RD CENTRAL HK
Approved Response
Pending
CORRESPONDENCE
Ref: Q3/04 2019/7/31
From: “stephen watkins” <watnoneleft@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:18am
To: wsbt@ca.org, tal1@ca.org, esarahtaylor@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Urgent Inquire cocaineanonymous/ Trademark Infringe Problems (To Principal/CEO)
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Hi Guys, we have received this email and I’m not sure who needs to deal with it, if indeed anything needs to be done.
Thank you for your continued service
Steve
Cauk
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: CAUK Literature <literature@cauk.org.uk>
Date: 31 July 2019 at 08:57:23 BST
To: Steve Watkins <watnoneleft@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Fwd: RE: Urgent Inquire cocaineanonymous/ Trademark Infringe Problems (To
Principal/CEO)
Hi Steve
Please can you pass this onto the right bodies to take action.
Many thanks, Nicky
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: Urgent Inquire cocaineanonymous/ Trademark Infringe Problems (To Principal/CEO)
Date: 31-07-2019 07:41
From: lee <lee@govidc.org.cn>
To: helpline <helpline@cauk.org.uk>
Reply-To: admin <admin@ipnet.hk>, lee <lee@govidc.org.cn>
Dear Principal,
Nice day. We are an organization specialized in dealing with Internet Copyright dispute and Trademark Registration in Asia.
Yesterday, one company named Mircury Investment Co. Ltd applied for the Internet Trademark “cocaineanonymous” and some Domains with us. After checking, we found it conflicted with your name and trademark.
As we have nice cooperations before, we need confirm with you if you consigned that company to register these? Or are they your subbranch? Because the Domains and Internet Trademark may relate to the usufruct of your trademark, pls give us a reply ASAP.
Best Regards,
Lee Gao
Manager of Auditing Department
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Hong Kong IP Network Limited
Web: www.hk-ip.org
- +852 30697409
- +852 30697409
- admin@ipnet.hk
Add: UNIT 3A 20/F FAR EAST CONSORTIUM BLDG 121 DES VOEUX RD CENTRAL HK
Approved Response
Pending
CORRESPONDENCE
Ref Q3/05 2019/8/5
From: Teddy Wilson [mailto:teddywilson3232@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 2:37 PM
To: cawso@ca.org
Subject:
Authorization of use of CA block letters and motto HOPE FAITH AND COURAGE on baseball caps and knit caps for sale at CA meetings, CA functions, and general sales to the public.
A percentage of sales donated to CA district office and local CA fellowships.
ALL ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT:
1cleanpro280@gmail.com and/or
213-338-9391 ask for Teddy Wilson
Thank you
Approved Response
Pending
CORRESPONDENCE
REF : Q3/06 2019/8/9
From: Devin Edge [mailto:ordurrex@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 7:14 PM
To: cawso@ca.org
Subject: Group Literature
Since C.A. uses AA’s Big Book and 12 x 12, is it ok for a C.A. group to sell them?
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Approved Response
Pending
WSBT REFERRALS
WSBT 2019-1
Please can each Regional Trustee provide details of each Area’s Helpline number and website address in their quarterly reports so as to allow the WSCPI Committee to collate and make available to the World Service Office.
This is to allow for this information to be available when the World Hotline is back up and running.
WSBT 2018-1 From Linda M. Quebec Area (In-Conference) (Wade)
Please consider removing remove the name Back to Basic or B2B from meeting names and meeting lists because it refers to an organization outside of CA that sells books and give consultations that we C.A. should not endorse as per our 6th Tradition.
PROPOSED RESPONSE:
No Action Taken
Thank you for your referral regarding removing the name Back to Basic or B2B from meeting names and meeting lists. The term ‘back to basics’ is a generic expression that denotes a return to concentrating on simple or important ideas or activities, and it has long been understood as such prior to any other organizations that may now use the term in their name. Each C.A. Group is autonomous with respect to their group name, and each C.A. Area also has autonomy over their processes for approval of/listing of local groups on their meeting lists.
If you refer to (WSM, page16) “DEFINITION OF A COCAINE ANONYMOUS “GROUP””
A meeting is when two or more people gather together to share their experience, strength and hope with each other. A meeting may call itself a C.A. Group when:
- The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all mind-altering substances.
- It is fully self-supporting.
- Its primary purpose is to help addicts recover through the Twelve Steps of C.A.
- It has no outside affiliations.
- It has no opinion on outside issues.
- Its public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion
THE C.A. GROUP The basic unit in C.A. is the local Group, which is autonomous except in matters affecting other Groups or C.A. as a whole. The Group has but one primary purpose, which is to help others to recover through the suggested Twelve Steps. Each Group is self-supporting through its own contributions. As the Twelve Steps are our guide to recovery, the Twelve
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Traditions are our guide to Group unity, growth and discipline. Its members maintain their personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, television and films.
The importance of the Group, what it constitutes and its functions cannot be stressed enough. Maintenance of our recovery depends on the sharing of our experience, strength and hope with each other, thus helping us to identify and understand the nature of our disease.
Most addicts in C.A. achieve and sustain their recovery as a result of their participation in the activities of the Group. The Group is the heart of Cocaine Anonymous and it is vital to the new member. It is equally important to those who have achieved recovery as a result of the program. They may continue to participate and receive assistance from the Group. The Group’s total responsibility is perhaps best expressed by the First Tradition:
“Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon C.A. unity.”
Most meetings follow a more or less set format, although distinctive variations have developed. It is our experience that many meetings begin or end with some form of prayer. While each C.A. group is autonomous, and adopts its own format, C.A. as such never endorses, opposes or affiliates, expressed or implied, with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. A leader describes the C.A. program briefly for the benefit of the newcomers, and then turns the meeting over to a speaker or to participation.
Sometime during the meeting, there is usually a period for C.A. related announcements of interest to the meeting. A collection is taken to cover rent, literature and chips, refreshments C.A. World Service Manual 2018 Edition 17 and contributions to the District, Area and World Service Office as per the 7th Tradition. Many groups hold a business meeting monthly or at other intervals to discuss such items as: group finances, distribution of 7th Tradition, meeting format, election of trusted servants, etc. It is suggested that records be kept of group business meeting decisions. Each group is autonomous, and the group conscience decides how business meetings may be conducted.
Those attending meetings are reminded that any opinions or interpretations they may hear are solely those of the speaker or participant involved. All members are free to interpret the recovery program in their own terms, but none can speak for the local Group or C.A. as a whole.
Again, each Area is autonomous and is at liberty to decide for itself with regards to the meeting list.
Sincerely,
World Service Board of Trustees, Cocaine Anonymous
WSBT 2018-2 From Cynthia C. Washington State Area (In-Conference) (Complete)
As the guardians of the Twelve Traditions, I would appreciate your weighing in on Referral S&B 2017-15 regarding the process to change the Steps or Traditions. A lengthier referral was also submitted to S&B, but I believe there is a critical first question to be answered: 1 Does the existing language in the first paragraph of Article 4 of the Charter set a threshold of 3/4 of the C.A. Groups known to exist, or only those Groups voting as stated in the referral? Other thresholds in the WSM are explicit, as in further down in section 4 (“a three-quarters vote of all the voting Conference members registered and present”) and the TEC process (“Abstentions will not be considered a vote, and the election will be affirmed by two-thirds of the voting members”). For a decision of this magnitude, I believe the existing language should be construed literally to mean three-quarters of *the* C.A. groups, not just those voting. It seems to me that anything less would not provide
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the group conscience originally envisioned when the Charter was drafted. Thank you for your consideration.
PROPOSED RESPONSE:
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Cynthia:
Thank you for your comments. As you may know by this time, the S&B Committee withdrew that proposal for further work, and there was some discussion of the proper voting criteria in the decision to withdraw. Recently, the S&B committee referred the matter back to the WSBT.
Some history:
A.A. has never used this process and has (therefore) never created a detailed method to carry it out, so an inquiry to them regarding their experience was inconclusive. The language in our Charter was taken from the A.A. Charter which reads (at the end of Section 3*)
But no change in Article 12 of the Charter or in the Twelve Traditions of A.A. or in the Twelve Steps of A.A. may be made with less than the written consent of three-quarters of the A.A. groups, as described in the Resolution adopted by the 1955 Conference and Convention.
The final clause in that was removed as no such resolution exists in our Conference history. AA’s resolution from 1955 (which established the Conference as the successor to the co-founders and can be found in the AA WS Manual as Appendix B and is now incorporated into the current AA Charter) says the following [emphasis ours]:
…AND IT IS UNDERSTOOD: That neither the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous nor the warranties of Article XII of the Conference Charter shall ever be changed or amended by the General Service Conference except by first asking the consent of the registered A.A. groups of the world. [This would include all A.A. groups known to the general service offices around the world.] These groups shall be suitably notified of any proposal for change and shall be allowed no less than six months for consideration thereof. And before any such Conference action can be taken, there must first be received in writing within the time allotted the consent of at least three-quarters of all those registered groups who respond to such proposal.
So, the Committee’s original proposal, referring to responding groups, was in line with the A.A. Charter.
Our Charter is silent on this matter.
Some practical considerations and concerns, however, arise.
First, how does the office identify or count C.A. groups? Is this best left to Areas? Do even Areas have a good count? Recently one Area audited its listed meetings and found about 10% of them had gone dark, while some new ones were not listed. This makes any absolute count difficult, although estimates could be made. Further, there is some confusion between “meeting” and “group.” In this process one might want to limit votes to groups during their business meeting.
Second, not all groups will be informed, and of those which are informed not all will act within the timeframe desired. Are these to count as automatic “No” votes? That would seem a formula designed to defeat any initiative (and subject to gaming by opponents).
Third, we would not want to make any change without as complete a response as possible, so some threshold of response was suggested to validate the vote. Since, under the A.A. guidelines, the Conference needs to take final action after gaining consent, that might be a sufficient safeguard. Others have suggested a minimum percentage (or hard number) of responses.
Fourth, such a question requires as informed a Group Conscience as possible, so the method of polling the groups should include written arguments pro and con, as complete and fair as can be devised without being overwhelming.
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All of these issues are known and will be considered as we revise the original proposal, and the Conference (and your World Service Board) can be relied upon to discuss this with due care and concern.
At this point, our best advice is “Trust the process.”
WSBT 2018-3 From Susan B. OSA (In-Conference) (Send to WSO)
That the Trustees investigate the process by which our literature can begin to be provided in Braille and audio book format to help the low visioned, blind, and learning challenged find recovery.
Thanks for your consideration!
WSBT 2018-4 From Susan B. OSA (In-Conference) (Send to WSO)
That the Trustees take the necessary action to make www.ca.org ADA compliant in the next 2 years.
C.A. is not accessible to those addicts with disabilities who need available technology to interact with the world around them. Although addiction could be seen as a disability on its own, we are neglecting those with sight, sound and mobility challenges on our website, thereby not fulfilling our primary purpose. The OSA website faces these same issues.
Here’s a good place to start: https://www.npgroup.net/blog/ada-compliance-checklist-is-your-website-accessible/
WSBT Conference Call – Sunday, September 22, 2019 – WSBT Orientation Call
Conference Quarterly – December 6 – 8, 2019
WSBT Group Inventory – Tradition 1
Close – Serenity Prayer
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For all reports and attached documents from pages 23 – 174 see: https://documents.historyofca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-08-25-09-01-WSBT-Quarterly-Minutes.pdf