Once upon a time in Berkeley, there was an Underground newspaper called the BERKELEY BARB. Being Berkeley, it was not radical enough. There was a strike at the BERKELEY BARB, and a new word order was created, THE BERKELEY TRIBE. “The  Berkeley Tribe  was a radical  counter cultural underground newspaper  published in Berkeley, California  from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a bitter staff dispute 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… It became a leading publication of the New Left. 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 c...