well let's bring in professor david lewis from the international whistleblowing real. chemist alist thanks for coming onto our team this morning you said before that whistle blowing could be success what would you call what's happening to june in the sun john bradley manning and edward snowden a success. what's happening to them that will but it's been successful in the sense that people around the world have been a little. biologic that that message is inconvenient as normal in these situations but isn't one of the of the big. project things that the messenger. and the wife the message we've seen in all these places about phones is activity. we see it about orientation in mining we see. that it's the. friends back at the end of the site have sent the message that despite the reaction outside the u.s. demonstrates a lot of the people should not traces. i think it's very altering the culture was. this language in the interim. in the sense that you feel that she responded to that message you say in the interest of everyone but is it actually in the interest of the whistl

i think david elliot lewis said something very poignant, volunteering is a pathway towards healing. i think the fact that we have so many folks here that are living testaments to struggle and overcoming, i think what david was talking about, going from the darkness to the light. that involves a lot of things, but you know, having that firsthand experience with that can help other people, because a face is put to that struggle and the difference successes and living productive lives. is there there is a face to it and a story and we have black diva media, that the fact that you have access to media and you are using it in a positive way and that speaks volumes. before i stop, i wanted to touch on how housing is affected by this. i don't have all the answers and i do housing issues with sta and i understand that the mayor's office of housing, there has been a proposal from advocates to put in some anti-eviction legislation that would cut -- that would try to curtail before things lead up to evictions and perhaps some mental health component could be inserted into that conversation to k

. >> david lewis, great american popcorn company. fourth evolution of my business. you're always trying to maneuver yourself into what you perceive to be and most often is a better traffic and better footprint for whatever business you're in. >> ms. kitty, the grape escape, seven years on main street. >> do you feel responsibility as a business owner here for the community in a way that you wouldn't if maybe you opened your bar in chicago? >> very possibly. when people talk politics and how they feel about things, i always say i'm a is social capitalist because i want the freedom to run any business i want, but i need to take care of the community that allows my business to thrive. >> the concept here wasn't to make a lot of money. it's a lifestyle thing. i love what i'm doing. i love the interaction with people and things like that. i make enough money to live on. i'm happy. i have the lifestyle i always wante wanted. >> chef vivo, 19 years on main street. >> you started with one card table, selling one or two products. >> that's right. >> now you have two stores n

treatment in san francisco for individuals who are in mental health cyrus, presentation by david elliot lewis ph.d. co-chair mental health board of city and county of san francisco. e, in our own voice stories of hope and recovery, a unique public education presentation that offers insight into the hope and recovery possible for people living with mental illness, includes an overview of nami, san francisco and the various programs offered. presentation by anne fischer, program director, national alliance on mental illness, nami, gillian croen, nami peer-to-peer mentor and ioov speaker and idell wilson, co-chair, mayor's disability council nami peer-to-peer mentor and ioov speaker. 8 information item, report on the golden guardian exercise on may 15, 2013 the disability prospective, presentation by council members chip supanich and denise senhaux. >> 9, public comments, 10 information item, correspondence, 11, discussion item, council member comments and announcements. >> thank you. now we have public comment. is there anyone for item 3, public comment? >> good afternoon. my name is richard ro

. >> my name is david elliot lewis and i'm glad to have the chance to be here to be able to talk to access to services in the city, from my own experience, my observations of others. this city is blessed in many ways and we probably have more access to mental health services per capita than i think any other city in the circuit city and that is good, but pain and suffering still exists. and it's actually pain and suffering that i have known firsthand. first let me talk a little bit about myself and you can see where i am coming from. in addition to being co-chair of the mental health advocate, i have been successful in many ways in my life and i have been a consumer and if it wasn't for the services actually offered in this city to help people with mental illness, i wouldn't have been able to pull myself out of the darkness. i wouldn't have been able to bring myself here to talk to you. i wouldn't be able to serve on mental health board and i wouldn't be able to do volunteer work that i do for the mental health association and nami and other groups, but i couldn't have done it if i hadn't

. >>> good afternoon, supervisors, david elliott lewis, co-chair of the city's mental health board. in addition to being co-chair of the board, i'm also a writer, photographer, and i sit on other boards. and community housing partnership, i do community organizing. i'm also a consumer. i'm also someone who has used the city's mental health services. in fact, if those services weren't there for me when i needed them, i wouldn't be here today to even be able to talk to you. i wouldn't have been able to get onto any boards or commissions. i wouldn't have been able to do the kind of community work i do. i would have been sitting in a deep, dark depression, homeless, not functioning, self-indulgent, no good to myself or anyone else. but some kind of spark of life came to me during those dark days and i walked into a community clinic and i asked for help, and i got help. and through a very long, slow process of recovery, i was able to pull myself out of the darkness and get to the point where i could actually give back to the community. and as you have heard from so many of the speakers t

. >> it makes a difference when things are made visible and, david, in this article, it also brought up how justice lewisgled with how to cast a decisive vote in the '86 so do my case that devastated the gay community. he told his justice he didn't meet a homosexual but one of his four clerks was gay. john roberts admitted about 30 members of the lgbt bar association. how do you think that changes the dynamics of the court, the visibility of lgbt people who have a choice to make about being visible. because it's easy to hide sometimes in the lgbt community. you don't have to raise your hand and be accounted for. >> i think it makes all the difference in the world. you know, it's interesting, the court this term is deciding whether the federal defense marriage act is constitutional. when that law was enacted by congress in 1996, incidentally i was clerking at the supreme court, at that time when congress said that the federal government would in no way recognize any marriage of any same sex couple, there actually were no same sex married couple anywhere in the world, there wasn't a single country that all