Tribal Notes

TRIBAL NOTES

One of the most important things coming up in the next couple of weeks is the Tribal Feast on August 12th at 6:00 pm in Burns Park! That will be the first community dinner and meeting that we've had for a couple of months now and we're looking forward to having a lot of people there, a lot of good food, a lot of tokes and kids and a lot of good community ENERGY! The Tribal Council will be talkin' about all the different committees and how people can get involved, meeting times, different Tribal Council projects etc. The Food Committee hopes to be providing some corn to roast and if the weather is good it should be really far-out!

Now that the Tribal Network is open, people don't have to wait for the SUN or the Tribal Feasts to find out what's going on in the community! You can call the Network at 663-4208 any day from 10 am to 2 am and find out what's going on around town, get rides, abortion referral, draft counseling information, meeting times and more! The Tribal Network which is part of the Communications Committee has meetings on Thursdays at 4 pm every other week when the SUN is not being put together (off -paper week) and the Communications Committee itself has meetings those same weeks on Wednesdays at 5 pm. For meeting places call the Network 663-4208!

The Food Committee of the Tribal Council is now beginning plans for the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival! For the first time at a people's event the total concession trip will be dealt with by our people from the community with hot dogs and coke removed from the scene! We just can't continue to relate to honkies making profits off our people when the goods they serve are not healthy but rather are death culture products. We've been taking care of the stand at the free concerts with only about five people working and it hasn't been too bad but now we're speaking in terms of ten or fifteen thousand people and we're going to need about 40 people to staff the food stand and the kitchens behind the scenes. If you're into working with the Food Committee come to the meeting on Friday at 2:30 at Mark's Coffeehouse. If you can't possibly make the meeting then call Jeanie Walsh at 761-1709 and talk to her about the Food Committee.

The Tribal Council along with other community groups will be setting up booths at the Blues and Jazz Festival as education centers where people can find out all the different groups that are in Ann Arbor, what type of work they're into, how to participate, literature tables and just general information. The Tribal Council is considering silk-screening some Tribal Council t-shirts to raise money to help fund some of the committees, Tribal Feasts and other small expenses, printing costs for flyers etc.

Also at the B&J Festival will be Rangers working security for the whole festival, Drug Help, will be there to take care of minor medical problems, bad trips, people who are downed out and need help and basically doing the their jobs- same work they do at the park on Sunday on a much larger scale. This will be a community event, with people in the community taking part in every aspect of the Festival and people should relate to it on that level and not as some big super-extravaganza superstar promotion trip put on by Eastown-Cobo Hall-Olympia type chumps who are out to rip off music-starved freeks of all kinds! The Rainbow Corporation will be giving a complete run down of where the profits will be going- watch the SUN for that report!

JOIN THE TRIBAL COUNCIL COME TO THE TRIBAL FEAST-AUG 12

-Jeanie Walsh-for the Tribal Council Steering Committee

Photo by Linda Ross--Richie Stoneman of the  People's Food Committee cooks up corn on the cob at the tribal stomp in the park last Sunday.