Camejo Speaks at UVM -- Oct 20

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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.

Ashley Smith | asmith-IlkltR3YSgFrovVCs/[email protected]
tel: 802-310-8287
P.O. Box 5762, Burlington, VT 05402
Paid for by
Nader for President 2004 General Election Committee
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