of course, my mother karen medicine cloud and pam and my uncle al cross and randy and paulette and ohs mayor and stephanie and my best friends and older brother t.j. i want to thank the drums and the dancers. we've done a lot of work but there's a lot more work we have to do. it's a hunl position it means a lot this award my peers remembered me if the president of the united states gave me something it wouldn't be as important to me. so thank you, everyone. (clapping.) >> thank you liz and vernon and congratulations. now let us welcome janet king the coordinator to the american health center (clapping) >> good evening. i have a great pleasure of introducing bonding many to receive an award tonight. i've been knowing bonding many for 5 and a half years and as soon as she got here she's been volunteering she's on two committees one for the american indian in san francisco. she's also with me and native health center. she's known for her squash soup. it's good it's made with beginner and great apples and she's joined here with her mother judy hartley who is sitting behind her. right now

i'm paulette brown and i'm here to talk about my son who was murdered and thirty rounds of bullets were pumped into him my sons case is not sofldz and i'm looking for justice for my son and the last time we were told to check on the cold cases. my son was a good boy. he graduated from went a to catholic school. i had to walk across the state to receive his diploma. he was 17 years old a baby. as i said all before the holidays are here my son loved christmas. he's not here to enjoy this christmastime with his family. as a mother i hurt everyday not just when i come here but everyday when i'm at home when there's nothing else to do and when it's time for me to a go to sleep i'm in pain even though i have two daughters left. but i try to stay strong for them but it's hard. but they see the paper in their mother everyday. i wouldn't wish this open any parents any parents i'm not saying those people don't have problems but this is something i need to keep saying and doing. because if it i do not i'll probably laid and die. it's hard i might look okay open the inside but i'm in pain the perio

misfits who weren't cooperating during seventh area so we were corralled and take it into a sister paulette's room where she organized. does it work and part of the busy work we keep working on political campaigns we drew names out of a hat i was fortunate in one nine hundred seventy i drew the name of john tani who at the time was running for the house of representatives in riverside county he was a disciple of the kennedy clan and was running for congress said i pulled his name out of a how did we were to volunteer and work on that campaign and i would say tom fight honestly that was my introduction to electoral politics and media so you've seen it from the inside and from the outside. yeah no i definitely started on the inside as a result of that effort i got my name onto a number of lists that not lead to one nine hundred seventy two i had a chance meeting with you or humphrey where i asked my father why were most of our friends working for george. the governor at the time i enjoyed meeting hubert humphrey but wondered a lot more about george mcgovern and i think that was really the seven

time misfits who were cooperating during seven period so we were corralled in taken into a sister paulette's room where she organized us into a busy work and part of the busy work we keep working on political campaigns we drew names out of a hat and i was fortunate in one nine hundred seventy i to the name of john tani who at the time was running for the house of representatives in riverside county he was a disciple of the kennedy clan and was running for congress had i pulled is the amount of how did we were to volunteer and work on that campaign and i would say tom quite honestly that was my introduction to electoral politics and he has so you've seen it from the inside and from the outside. yeah no i definitely started on the inside as a result of that effort i got my name onto a number of lists that not lead to one nine hundred seventy two i had a chance meeting with you or humphrey or i asked my father why were most of our friends working for george mcgovern at the time i enjoyed meeting hubert humphrey but wondered a lot more about george mcgovern and i think that was really the seven