[GPCA Updates] ADVISORY: Public memorial Nov. 23 for Peter Camejo, former Green candidate for Calif. Gov.

[Green Party of California Updates]

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Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 12, 2008


Public Memorial for Peter Camejo, former Green Party gubernatorial
candidate, activist, planned for Sunday, Nov. 23


Berkeley, CA  A public memorial celebrating the life of former
gubernatorial, presidential and vice-presidential candidate Peter Camejo
will be held SUNDAY, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at the International House on the
University of California at Berkeley campus (2299 Piedmont Ave), according
to an announcement by family and friends.

Mr. Camejo died Sept. 13 at home in Folsom, CA after a lengthy fight with
cancer.

Speakers at the Public Memorial at UCB  which, ironically, expelled Mr.
Camejo for his activities as a student opposing the war in Vietnam in the
60's  will include those who worked with him as a student leader during that
era.

Other speakers include those Mr. Camejo worked with as a leader in the
socially responsible investment industry; as the Green Party gubernatorial
candidate in the 2003 Recall Election, and Green party gubernatorial runs in
2002 and 2006; as Ralph Nader's vice-presidential candidate in 2004; and as
an environmentalist and a civil rights activist. He also ran for President
with the Socialist Workers Party.

Ralph Nader  who will speak at the Memorial  has remembered Mr. Camejo as "a
civil rights leader, socially responsible investment pioneer, and magnanimo
caballero' for third party politics in the U.S." He said Mr. Camejo "used
his eloquence, sharp wit, and barnstorming bravado to blaze a trail for 21st
century third party politics in the US."

Organizers said that "Everyone who has met Peter, talked with Peter, worked
with Peter, argued with Peter, or heard of him are invited to join friends
and family in celebrating his life."