Membership
The ACB counts its membership in the tens of thousands—including that of its 71 affiliate organizations. Membership is open to any citizen or resident of the USA as well as interested persons in other countries. The ACB says it "welcomes diversity" in its membership and that it "is not restricted in any way."
Each year, many of its members gather in a major American city for a convention. (In 2006 it was held in Jacksonville, Florida and in 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.)
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)