Tribal Council News - Tribal Notes

This time trying to write this article has been a lot harder than usual because the energy within the community at times often seems so scattered and people are into leaving town for trips and cruising a lot more because the weather is such a relief from the winter. That's something that we can all relate to, you know - getting out in the sun and feelin the warm air but while we're doing all that there's heavy shit coming down as usual and we've got to realize that at some point we are all going to have to forgo a lot of those good times spent cruising until a lot more of all the people are free to cruise or whatever. People, and that means all of us who are reading this now, are taught from the very beginning a distinction between work and 'play' as the honks call it and that there ain't no fun in working and feeling the satisfaction of gettin shit done! Of course you have to keep in mind that a lot of the things that they create for people to do as work is just shit work. Now, long with all the other things that we as a people are trying to create; we're trying to break down that separation between working and "playing". We don't see the separation because we know that you can get high from Tribal Council meetings and the Sunday Free Concerts just the same, cause we're all there together building up the strength of our nation! But if people are coming to the Sunday concerts and not coming to the various People's Committee meetings and when sometimes those meetings don't even happen as a result, then we're not doing everything that we could be doing to continue the struggle to build our nation and create the kind of scene that we could dig see happening!

Right now within our community we all gotta realize that the whole thing that happened on the Diag during the crater dig wouldn't have happened if the police hadn't been into their 'control order' trip or better yet if they hadn't even been there! We still believe that what we were all doing there was a totally non-violent demonstration to show people how we feel about the war and to help people realize that it's easy in this country to totally remove oneself from the war scene and sometimes to forget completely about it. We discussed at several Tribal Council meetings the need for our community to hold some type of demonstration that would serve the need for a non-violent anti-war demonstration that wouldn't be simply another march of picket line or whatever. We still encourage property-owning people to dig bomb craters in their front yards and hopefully there will be enough around town that we will accomplish the daily war reminder that we were striving for on the Diag. Aside from that we must start a thorough investigation into the police department and work with all other elements of the community that are into that same investigation. A couple of months ago the Tribal Council launched such an investigation that never quite got off the ground because enough people didn't support it. This time we need the investigation more than ever and there are plans to link it up with an investigation of local war researchers as well. Anyone who has any information that might be helpful or who is interested in working on the project contact the Tribal Council through the Sun or contact the Human Rights Party who are also very much into investigating the police department since City Council has theoretical control of it.

The other pressing problem that we as a community have to deal with at this time is the huge quantity of Quaaludes that flood our people's communities with low energy death drug addiction. The seriousness of the problem has become more evident over the past couple of weeks when it was learned that Quaaludes are addicting !! and that people need medical supervision for withdrawal or risk the chance of death and most important of all-that the local hospital turned away the majority of those people seeking help, and those that it did choose to help were treated as "psychiatric" cases and dangerous weirdos etc.!

People in our community are calling for a complete program to deal with the drug companies who pour this shit into our community, the actual addiction, and the hospitals that still refuse to deal with the real needs of the people.

See the related article this issue for more information. Check the calendar for People's Committee meetings. JOIN THE TRIBAL COUNCIL! and see you in the Park on Sundays!!

LIFE TO THE LIFE CULTURE!
WELCOME HOME BROTHERS PUN & SKIP!!
LET IT GROW!!!

Jeanie Walsh-for Tribal Council Steering Committee