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Highlights of Carlos Petroni Biography:
- Carlos Petroni was born in Argentina, August 8, 1947. Immigrated to the US in 1978. He is married with one daughter and three sons. He is the grandfather of three children.
- During his years in Argentina he was a journalist, a printer, labor leader, political activist and noted Civil Rights advocate.
- He received, among others, the National Society of Writers award for his fiction work. He also received other 25 regional and international awards. Fiction books published: The Resurrection of Lazarus (Novel); Collection of Short Stories.
- As a journalist, he worked in different dailies and magazines, covering international and political news. He also wrote a series on the world economy (1976).
- As a printer, he worked in a four color press in one of the largest factories in Argentina, part of the most militant section of the Argentinean working class. Shop Steward for years and regional representative for his union. He run succesfully for his union Executive Committee. Was appointed National Coordinator of several Union's federations.
- For his work as a labor leader, writer and human rights activist, he was arrested more than 100 times, first by the Peronist government (1973-1976) and during the military dictatorship (1976-77). He was also the target of two assasination attempts in which he resulted seriously wounded by para-military forces and spent time in prison for his political views.
- Since January 1978 he lives in the USA. He worked as a printer, insurance agent, journalist, health educator, Director of a HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Hotline and he is presently the editor of SF Frontlines Newspaper (circulation: 60,000)and Program Director of Violence Prevention programs for youth in the Mission District.
- He was active in the labor movement as a non-paid union organizer. As such, he was responsible for organizing more than 6,000 workers in Southern and Northern California. He also participated in strike committees and helped negotiate more than 15 union contracts, representing different bargaining units in different unions.
- He traveled extensively throughout Europe, Latin American, Asia and Africa. He participated actively in the revolution that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1979) and in the solidarity movement with the Central American Revolution. He also traveled to Britain to speak against the war between Britain and Argentina (1982). He toured repeatedly the US with South African leaders during the anti-apartheid struggle.
- He is a trained economist and urban planner and he wrote extensively on transportation, neighborhood economic development and job creation programs.
- He is often invited to different US and European universities to give conferences.
- In the early 70s, he was the state-chair of a coalition of more than 500 organizations that succesfully defeated the first attempt to pass reactionary legislation against immigrants in California.
- He is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI) and a member of Labor Militant, a democratic socialist organization.
- In 1997 he launched the newspaper SF Frontlines that covers politics, arts and etertainment and cultural annalysis. Is the first multicultural newspaper in San Francisco. SF Frontlines is growing in circulation very fast and is widely read in all communities and neighborhoods of the City.
- Oh, well ... his astrological sign is Leo and he is born in the Chinese year of the Boar.
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