Friends of Bill W. National Letter-Writing Campaign to Get Bill Wilson on a U.S. Postage Stamp
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 11, 2013 -- Writers In Treatment, 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, is calling on people in recovery and the general public to write letters to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) asking them to place the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, on a commemorative U.S. Postage Stamp in honor of AA’s 80th Anniversary on June 10, 2015.
The campaign is spearheaded by leading Hollywood recovery organization Writers In Treatment (W.I.T.) with active participation by the producers and directors of the critically acclaimed documentary Bill W.; the addiction social network InTheRooms.com; and New Directions for Women. For the USPS to consider and approve the stamp in time for the AA anniversary date, the campaign including postcards and letters must be received by December 31, 2013. The goal is to unveil the stamp in Atlanta between June 12-14, 2015 while AA is celebrating its 80th Anniversary with more than 50,000 attending their convention there.
“AA currently has over one and a half million members, referred to as ‘friends of Bill W.’,” says Leonard Buschel, founder and chairman of W.I.T. “And that doesn’t include the millions in other programs, like Narcotics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous, that have embraced the 12-step program originally designed by Bill W. and Dr. Bob.”
Today, thanks to the work of Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous is an informal society of more than 2,000,000 recovered alcoholics in the United States, Canada, and other countries.
Says Buschel, “We look forward to the day in 2015 when we can see Bill W. flying across the globe on envelopes and postcards—literally illustrating that his life-changing work has spread to the ends of the earth.”
Please send a letter to:
Stamp Development
U.S. Postal Service
475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260
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Alison Hill, Writers In Treatment, http://www.writersintreatment.org, 714-444-9731, [email protected]
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