Bio details

Director: San Diego Renters Union
Member: National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
Assistant Treasurer: Affordable Housing Coalition of San Diego County
Member: Grant Making Committee, San Diego Foundation for Change (on leave during campaign)
Former member: City Heights Planning Committee (elected by his neighbors)
Member: Sierra Club
Member: San Diego Peace & Justice Coalition
Former Editor: San Diego Street Light newspaper

A retired landscaper, since 2002, he volunteers as a community journalist (both print and internet).
Since 2000, his articles from Mexico City and other Mexican cities, on the Zapatista movement, have appeared in many publications and on international websites.
He is author of the forthcoming book, "San Diego: 1st City of Empire."

A former training manager for Arco Corporation during the 1980's, he was fired when he refused to terminate people on trumped up grounds in an effort to reduce the number of workers on the health insurance rolls.

A life-long learner, Rocky has always attended independent, experiencial and cross-study education programs; including studies at the Centre for Inter-Cultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with Ivan Illich and Paul Goodman.
He also studied in Europe, in Norwich, England, with noted author, Cressida Lindsay, and worked with the ant-fascist movement in Portugal - for which he was briefly imprisoned.
In 1975, Rocky received his B.A. from the University of Redlands' Whitehall independent study program in Journalism.

He was a Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA), 1968-1970; working in poor Appalachian mountain communities in Kentucky and Ohio.

Rocky spends every week-end with his lover, Luis Ricardo, a Mexican national, who doesn't have a passport, at their home in Playas de Rosarito, Baja. Luis Ricardo, 26, works in the maquiladora industry. They have been together for 5 years.