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Camejo is a first generation American of Venezuelan descent. In spite of spending his earliest years in Venezuela, he had been fortuitously born in New York City where his mother had sought health care. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he came with his mother to reside principally in the United States. On summer holidays he would return to Venezuela to visit relatives. The contrasts he perceived between his two "homes" during these early years greatly influenced his character: specifically, his passionate love of democracy and political freedom, and his equal disdain for social inequality and injustice. He competed for Venezuela in yachting in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMotto Mens et Manus ("mind and hand") Established 1861 School type Private President Charles Vest (successor Susan Hockfield to take office in December 2004) Location Cambridge, Mass. USA Enrollment 4,112 undergraduate, 6,228 graduate Faculty 974 Campus U and the University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal Berkeley UCB or UC Berkeley is a public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. where he studied history. In 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio, after winning a student council election at Berkeley he was suspended for "using an unauthorized microphone" in a protest against the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on.
For most of his life, Camejo has participated in political movements advocating social, economic, and environmental justice. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, AlabamaSelma is a city located in Dallas County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 20,512. It is located at latitude 32°25' North, longitude 87°2' West. Concordia College, Selma, a college of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, is loc, rallied with migrant farm workers, and protested the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on.
He was the Socialist Workers PartyThe Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. Origins The socialist Workers Party was founded in 1938 by the Trotskyists of the former Communist League of America after its members had been expelled from the Social candidate for president in 1976 and co-founded the California Green Party in 1991.
In 2002 he was the Green Party's official candidate in the 2002 California gubernatorial election, polling 381,700 votes or 5.3%.[1]
In 2003 he was the leading Green Party candidate for governor in an unprecedented California recall election, in which he polled 3% of the votes. Although an actor turned Republican politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger, won the election (ousting the unpopular Democratic Party incumbent Gray Davis), Camejo's attendance and widely respected performance in all of the scheduled debates brought national support and worldwide attention to the Green Party. Without his having the rich financial funding of many of his opponents, Peter Camejo finished fourth in a field of 135 certified candidates: quite a feat in California, a state that was often described during the election as the fifth largest economy in the world.
In January, 2004 Peter Camejo initiated the Avocado Education Project that issued a statement known as the Avocado Declaration. The Avocado Declaration described how the Democratic Party and the Republican Party hinder social progress by working together to largely benefit a small wealthy constituency. It further advocated for a fiercely independent Green Party that would be capable of attracting nonvoters and disillusioned mainstream party supporters.
"The Green Party is at a crossroads," the Declaration began. Indeed, the central debate within the national Green Party prior to its 2004 presidential nomination was about whether to follow Camejo's advice of pursuing a confrontational campaign stategy promulgated in The Avocado Declaration or to tend the party at the state and local levels and assist a Democratic Party victory over the Republicans in the fall. While Camejo and others advocated for attracting new party members by sharply defining campaign issues, some feared a backlash against the party if it was perceived to help return George W. Bush to the White House.
Camejo submitted himself as a candidate in the Green Party of California's March 2, 2004 presidential preference primary. Before the primary, he made it known (though not in the state's official voter guide) that he was not planning to run for president and that any delegates pledged to him would be released as uncommitted in order to allow for greater flexibility in the nominating process. The popular former gubernatorial candidate got 76 percent of the vote and also accumulated a few pledged delegates from other states.
At the convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 26, 2004, proponents of a less confrontational strategy tended to support the nomination of presidential candidate David Cobb, while Camejo's fellow-thinkers rallied behind him and called for an endorsement of the Nader/Camejo campaign. However, the presence of other issues such as Nader's non-membership in the party, non-presence at the convention, and alliance with the Reform Party kept the nomination vote from being merely a referendum on strategy. Cobb won the nomination in the second round.
Despite losing the endorsement of the Green Party, Nader and Camejo have continued their campaign as independent candidates, having been endorsed by the Reform Party on May 11, 2004.
Both Nader and Camejo say the main reason they are running in the 2004 election is because there are no other national candidates demanding an immediate withdrawal of American troops from an immoral and unconstitutionally pursued War in Iraq (though Cobb, Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik, and Constitution Party canddiate Michael Peroutka also oppose the war and may appear on more ballots than the Nader/Camejo ticket).
Peter Camejo is married and has two children. He lives in Folsom, California. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Progressive Asset Management, a financial investment firm that encourages socially responsible projects. He is the author of "The SRI Advantage- Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially", and other books.
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