Berkeley People's Paper / Berkeley Fascist. Vol. 1 no. 1
196943202Berkeley: Thomas Klaber 1969. Single tabloid issue. On newsprint 4pp. Horizontal folds as issued; mild toning to newsprint; Very Good. Inaugural issue of this highly ephemeral underground newspaper published by disaffected staffers of the Berkeley Barb. Only three issues were published all between June 1 - July 4 1969; each issue bore alternate titles on opposite sides of the paper - "Berkeley Peoples Paper" on one side "Berkeley Fascist" on the other - with satirical content all designed more or less to lampoon the culture around The Berkeley Barb at this time the Bay Area's indeed the country's largest-circulation underground paper arranged more or less to match. Articles are unattributed but the masthead of the July 4 1969 issue listed among the paper's staff Allan Coult and K<br/>aren Lance Klaber's future spouse and long-time publisher of the East Bay Monthly both of whom had direct ties to the Barb. The entire staff appears to have had a running grudge with the Barb's publisher Max Scherr a notoriously tight-fisted employer whose allegedly vast personal income is a subject of speculation in the first issue's lead editorial titled "Fascist Supremacy." This grudge would eventually culminate in the entire Barb staff walking out in protest founding their own underground paper The Berkeley Tribe which quickly challenged and eventually surpassed the Barb for the position of the Bay Area's leading underground. People's Paper thus comprises an important chapter in the momentous Barb / Tribe split but it is practically unknown with only four physical holdings noted in OCLC none of which appear to hold more than a single issue. Thomas Klaber unknown books
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