Ralph Nader's Vice Presidential candidate, Peter Miguel Camejo, will be speaking at the University of Vermont, on Wednesday, October 20th at 7pm in Lafayette Building, Room 207. Lafayette is right behind Old Mill on University Place across from the Campus Green.
Camejo ran as the Green Party candidate in the recent recall election for Governor of California in which he was widely recognized to have won the televised public debates. He has been a leading activist in the movement for social justice for immigrants, people of color, and workers as a whole.
He and Ralph Nader are proposing the following platform: End the Occupation of Iraq and Bring the Troops Home Now; Fund Money for Schools Not Jails; Junk the Patriot Act; End Corporate Welfare; Guarantee National Healthcare for All; Enact Gay Marriage Now.
Don't miss this powerful speaker for social justice! For more information contact Ashley Smith at 802-310-8287 or at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Miguel Camejo (64) is a financier, businessman, political activist, environmentalist, author and one of the founders of the socially responsible investing movement.
Mr. Camejo is a first generation American of Venezuelan descent who was born in 1939 in New York. He has fought for social and environmental justice since his teens. He marched in Selma, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., rallied for migrant farm workers and was active against the war in Vietnam. In 1967, after winning a student council election at UC Berkeley he was suspended for "using an unauthorized microphone" protesting the Vietnam War. When he was 20 he competed in the Olympics in Italy as a yachtsman.
Mr. Camejo has worked to defend the rights of workers and Latinos and other immigrants in the United States. In 1976, he ran for President as a socialist. His most recent run for office was as a Green Party candidate in the gubernatorial recall election in California. His participation in the debates in that election resulted in him speaking to a worldwide audience.
Active in the environmental movement, Mr. Camejo has served as a member of the Board of Directors of EarthShare in the early 1990s in a coalition of over 40 major environmental groups and on the Council for Responsible Public Investment which he founded. He also helped form the Environmental Justice Fund, to finance and unify environmentalists of color.
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