Lionel Haines, James A. Schreiber, Stew Albert, Hank Dankowski
Publisher
Red Mountain[1] Tribe
Founded
1969
Ceased publication
May 1972
Headquarters
Berkeley, Calif.
Circulation
60,000[2]
ISSN
0005-9188
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The Berkeley Tribe was a radical counterculture weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a bitter staff dispute with publisher Max Scherr and split the nationally known Berkeley Barb into new competing underground weeklies. In July 1969 some 40 editorial and production staff with the Barb went on strike for three weeks, then started publishing the Berkeley Tribe as a rival paper, after first printing an interim issue called Barb on Strike to discuss the strike issues with the readership. They incorporated as Red Mountain Tribe, named after Gallo's one gallon finger-ringed jug of cheap wine, Red Mountain.[3][4][1] It became a leading publication of the New Left.[5][6]
Berkeley Tribe quickly positioned itself as more radical, counter-cultural and politically astute than Scherr's Barb; it soon became more successful, surpassing an initial press run of 20,000 reaching a high point of 60,000 copies by the spring of 1970, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Tribe was published weekly from early July 1969 until May 1972; by that time the feminist-run newspaper went biweekly for its final issues, folding in May.[7] Like the Barb it was sold on the streets of Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco by hippie street vendors; all staff were paid weekly with 100 copies which they too sold. Tribe was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS)—core staff were also involved with the start of UPS—and Liberation News Service.
Original contributions included cartoons by Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton and Spain Rodriguez; news covers and illustrations by Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso and Gary Grimshaw; poetry and prose from Marge Piercy and Diane di Prima; feminist writings by Jane Alpert and Robin Morgan; and original works by William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, John Sinclair and Baba Ram Dass, and photographs by Stephen Shames and Alan Copeland.
Tribe reporters covered Bernadette Devlin's fractious fund raising tour on behalf of the Provisional Irish Republican Army; French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard's difficulties with his new film One Plus One about The Rolling Stones as well as his uncompleted film One P.M. and cinéma vérité; the world premiere of Woodstock in Hollywood; the gain of Native American pride with the seizure of Alcatraz Island by the American Indian Movement (AIM); the loss of hippie, flower child innocence at Altamont; the Yippie takeover of Disneyland; and the police murder trial of Los Siete de la Raza in San Francisco.[7][8][9] The Oakland trial of Huey Newton was a weekly story and, later, staff covered the deadly shootout at the Marin County Courthouse, that killed a judge and the younger brother of George Jackson.
^ abSBRANTI, J.N. (March 9, 2007). "Ernest Gallo: In his own words". The Modesto Bee. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^auditbureaucirculations
^Andrews, Colman (11 April 1993). "Out of the Bottle : BLOOD AND WINE: The Unauthorized Story of the Gallo Wine Empire By Ellen Hawkes (Simon & Schuster: $25; 464 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^Dent, Bryan (July 13, 2015). "The King of the Jug Wines". The Brutal Hammer of Truth. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^Levy, Peter (1994). The New Left and Labor in the 1960s. University of illinois Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0252063671. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
^Alvarez, Alberto; Tristán, Eduardo (2017). Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives. Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 978-1138184411.
^ abAbout this Newspaper: Berkeley tribe. Chronicling America, Library of Congress, retrieved June 10, 2010.
^Peck, Abe (1985). Uncovering the Sixties: the life and times of the underground press (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 278–279, 288. ISBN 9780394527932.
^AArmstrong, David (1981). A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America (1st ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780896081932.
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