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Peter Miguel Camejo (born December 31, 1939) is a politician from California. He was one of four Green Party candidates for governor in the 2003 California recall election, in which he polled 3% of the votes. He was the Green Party's official candidate in the 2002 gubernatorial election, polling 381,700 votes or 5.3%.
He was born in New York City and attended (but did not graduate from) the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. He now lives in Folsom, California.
He was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 1976 and co-founded California's Green Party in 1991.
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 and Republican Parties hinder social progress and largely benefit a small wealthy constituency. It further advocated for a fiercely independent Green Party that would be capable of attracting alienated and disillusioned mainstream party supporters.
"The Green Party is at a crossroads," the Declaration began. The central debate within the Green Party prior to its 2004 Presidential Nomination was the choice to follow Camejo's advice promulgated in The Avocado Declaration, or to follow David Cobb's strategy of "growing" the party at the local levels and protecting the Party from widespread accusations that it could assist a Republican presidential victory in the Fall.
With the nomination of David Cobb as the Green Party Presidential Candidate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 26, 2004, the Green Party rejected Peter Camejo's strategy amidst charges that the nominating process had been corrupted by Democratic Party sympathizers.
Camejo is a vice-presidential candidate in the 2004 Presidential election and is no longer seeking the Green Party nomination as a stand-in for Ralph Nader. Nader, an independent candidate, endorsed by the Reform Party, announced on June 21, 2004, that Camejo would be his running mate in the 2004 election, presumably so he could receive the endorsement of the Green Party.