Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, May 24, 1972} Tribal Council plans activities By DARLENE STERN The Ann Arbor Tribal Coun- cil (TC), a coalition of "alter- native culture" agencies, are in need of volunteers to help con- tinue supplying the city with community activities and events. Representatives from various community organizations, Rain- bow Peoples Party, Youth Lib- eration, Drug Help and others, attend Tribal Council Steering Committee meetings e v e r y Tuesday night to plan and co- ordinate activities. "We felt there was a need for the Tribal Council so we would- n't duplicate services, so the alternative culture has a place where we all can meet together and plan our activities," says Steering Committee member Martha Bowerman, The council is in need of more volunteers to participate in the various committees because present members are overwork- ed, explains Bowerman. Bower- man attends 12 committee meetings a week, TC coordinates the activities of many committees including: -the Defense Committee, which patrols the free summer concerts, conducts self-defense classes, and manages the bail fund, -the Drug Committee, which works with the Free Medical Clinic and Drug Help, -the Communications Com- We're Raising Pay-- Not Prices-- On Paperback Sci-Fi Cover price 60c down-10c Cover price. 75c-15c Cover price 95c-20c We sell at 1/ Cover price We trades 1 1/ times as much as cash. i2 WOODEN k >; SPOON 2 h BOOKS Fourth Ave. {. noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sun. 769-4' /IS Jury Prize Award Winner 1912 Cannes Film Festival mittee, which will coordinate Other committees include The the N e t w o r k information- Food Committee, which will al phone line and take over re- prepare food for the summer sponsibilities for publishing the concerts. A new treat this year Ann Arbor Sun from the Rain- will be' "Crunchy Munchies", bow Peoples Party, and health food snacks. -the Ballroom and Music Among community projects Committee, which is setting up now being planned are "Sum- this summer's free rock concerts mer City" Buses, which will - and repairing the ballroom at travel during the week to the Community Center at 502 beaches and other places, a 11- E. Washington. The ballroom brary of political books and an should be ready within a month. Artist's Workshop. Besides the committees' pri- The workshop-which will not mary functions, some of them charge for equipment use-will are branching out into other be located in the community areas. The Defense Committee, center. "We'll have kilns, sew- for example, is presently con- ing machines, pottery wheels, ducting an investigation of the silk screens, and places for ar- Ann Arbor Police Department. tists to get together and do "We are asking all people in work," Bowerman says. Crafts Ann Arbor, if they are stopped workshops for leatherwork and by the police or see somebody candlework will be held two being stopped, to ask the police- nights a week. man for a 'Receipt of Police- The Tribal Council Sisters Citizen Contact,"' Bowerman was formed to help participants says. "They're required by law become aware of each other's to give it to everyone over 18 needs as women. Although the who requests it. We're going to meetings themselves are limit- take all those receipts and com- ed to women, the discussions are pile a list." based toward the political di- She asks that persons with re- rection of Tribal Council. ports on police activities call the Rainbow people at 'f61-1079 The pcoup's meetings are di- vided into two two-hour seg- and leave a message. ments. "We're not trying to be The Council also has a Health a women's movement group," Committee which is investigat- Bowerman points out. "The first - ing complaints about Ann Ar- segment is about sisterhood and bor's medical profession. Again, womanhood and how we feel. people in the community are We want to know how we can asked to report problems to the become closer and understand committee to increase its effec- brothers more. tiveness. "The second half of the meet- The Ballroom and Music ing is devoted to issues sur- Committee has already rewired rounding Tribal .Council and and reheated the ballroom and how we can put the things we built a new floor and stage. were talking about into effect." However, the ceiling is not yet All women are invited to the finished, and Bowerman asks meetings, but Bowerman em- that people in the community phasizes that the group is an come out to the ballroom and active part of the Tribal Coun- do some work, cil and that attending the meet- Although the Council hopes ings should be "a step towards to schedule free concerts this working with the community summer at the ballroom, there through Tribal Council." Those will also be. concerts to raise interested in attending should money for the center. The ball- contact either Bowerman at room will be available to com- 769-1442 or Genie Plamondon munity groups, at 761-1709 for information. "If a certain group wants to Everyone interested in work- use it, they can come to the ing on Tribal Council projects Ballroom Committee and give or with ideas to bring the Coun- us their reasons for needing cil should visit the Steering it," Bowerman explains. 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