The Abaco Islands are a group of islands (the largest of which is Great Abaco) in the Bahamas.In the early 1970s there was the Abaco Independence Movement (AIM) which was a separatist organization that tried to initiate a quiet revolution in establishing economic independence from the Commonwealth of The Bahamas(1974). AIM representatives flew to London and lobbied the British Government (Commons, Lords, and petition to Queen) to allow Abaco to become separate from any independent Bahamas. The requests were denied, and the entire Bahamas became independent. The AIM flag showed a lighthouse (presumably the lighthouse at Hopetown) amidst a sunburst. A picture of the flag (in B/W) appears in Steve Dodge's: "Abaco: The History of An Out Island and Its Cays" (Decatur: White Sound Press 1983), page 129. This book also has a good discussion of the AIM and the reasons behind its activities. It had its own newspaper, the Abaco Independent. The movement was discredited , and the newspaper ceased publication, in 1977.[1]