current and past project directors as eric mentioned and michael kelly from the beginning when michael cowen was trying to make this work and we were led through the entire process and now bob we're lucky to have worked a strong team at the it'd district attorney now from the corporation we have other gentleman you may not know about the treasure island development project included a management program that the transportation authority will be proud of. and from my tropics authority board supervisor avalos supervisor in district 11 and supervisor jane kim be couldn't be here she had to leave for the domestic conventional but we have sunny anglo from her office so thank you sunny for being her. i'd like to recognize other folks grateful to dianne feinstein who led at this constitutional right i critical area and senator leno and have the support of governor schwarzenegger and other is in the past who helped us move through the project development process and, of course, thank the cpc. finally the mayor's lee and past and present always board of supervisors past and present deserve our thanks

friendly, and so i try and convey in the book what it meant when dan turner and bobby campbell michael cowen and richard berk witt, ands met in denver in june of 1983 and hammered out this manifesto, the denver principles and that not only was incredibly important for people with a.i.d.s. and how it defined the self-help movement in creating a peer-to-peer service delivery system and also the very first time in the history of humanity, the very first time in the history of humanity, where people who shared a disease, organized and asserted their right to a political voice and the decisionmaking that would so profoundly affect their lives, and that's important, and it is now an ideal that has been replicated in other diseases, and other parts of the world. what we created -- sometimes i hear people talk about the 80s as awful as the death and dying there, was also something quite beautiful. and it was the way we were so cohesive as a community and we were carrying for each other. when someone tested positive, as the test came out, their diagnosis was accepted as a collective responsibility. t