Opinion

  by Preston Jensen This is the story of my brief relationship with Atheist Alliance International, and how it ended. At the time of writing † , I am a paid-up Individual Member of Atheist Alliance International, also known as a " Supporter " in the terminology of the current Bylaws. I will set the scene by recounting details of a very specific episode that occurred last year. In the summer of 2022, around the time of their last so-called "Annual General Meeting" (AGM), I noticed that there were many allegations being made against those who claimed to be directors of AAI. Those allegations dated back to 2017, and centred around a purported "AGM" on 20 May 2018. During 2022, Bill Flavell - the so-called Secretary of AAI - was being challenged on Facebook about some of the continuing allegations. One of the claims being made was that there had not been a quorum of members at the 2018 "AGM". This allegation had not come out of thin air - some month

by Martin Boers In July 2022 I published an article titled " Atheist Alliance International is an illegitimate organisation. Change my mind ." That article challenged the current so-called "board" of Atheist Alliance International (AAI) to produce specific pieces of documentary evidence that would settle claims about the legitimacy of their disputed 2018 "AGM" and, by extension, the legitimacy of the current "board" of AAI. I have no idea if anyone on the "board" of AAI read my article, but for the next 5 months they went almost completely silent. It seemed like AAI had ceased operations. There was even  a running joke about whether Brian Kernick ("Acting President" of AAI since July 2022) actually existed. In August 2022 I published another article, " The Four Questions that AAI Refuses to Answer ", which was republished on this blog in November. Finally, in early December 2022, the "board" of AAI broke t