Peter Camejo
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Peter Miguel Camejo
Socialist Workers Party
Peter Camejo left the Socialist Workers Party in 1981.
North Star Network
In the early 1980's Peter Camejo was in the process of forming the North Star Network with members of the Bay Area Socialist Organizing Committee. BASOC involved veteran Maoist leaders including Steve Hamilton, who had at one time been a leader of the Progressive Labor Party. Along with former Guardian writer John Trinkl, Camejo and the BASOC leaders sought ways to regroup the left on a nonsectarian basis. The survivors and the North Star Network launched a magazine called Crossroads that tried to popularize nonsectarian ideas and regroup broad sectors of the left.[1]
CoC National Conference endorser
In 1992 Peter Camejo, CrossRoads, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.[2]
Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s
The Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s was the Committees of Correspondence's first national conference held in Berkeley, California July 17-19, 1992.[3]
Workshops that were held at the conference on Saturday, July 18 included:[4]
Left Unity Getting it together: How should broad left unity be built? Speaking freely of differences and defining the basis for united action
- Peter Camejo, CrossRoads Advisory Council, Oakland
- Gil Green, author, NY
- Vivian Stromberg, exec. director, MADRE, NY
- Pat Harris, VP, Local 1199, NY
- Kendra Alexander, CA CoC
- Judith Pasternak, managing editor, National Guardian, NY
- Carla Wallace, steering committee, Kentucky Rainbow Coalition, Louisville
- Ethan Young, Cuba Update, NY
- Ron Johnson, housing activist, San Jose
CoC National Coordinating Committee
The following are listed in order of votes they received as members of the Committees of Correspondence National Coordinating Committee, elected at the Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.:[4]
- Angela Davis, SF
- Gus Newport, Berkeley
- Elizabeth Martinez, SF
- Alva Buxenbaum, NY
- Leslie Cagan, NY
- Peter Camejo, Alameda, CA
- Giuliana Milanese, SF
- Robert Chacanaca, Freedom, CA
- Mildred Williamson, Chicago
- Barry Cohen, NY
- Mark Solomon, Boston
- Barbara Lee, Sacramento
- Maudelle Shirek, Berkeley
- Raahi Reddy, New Brunswick, NJ
- Margy Wilkinson, Berkeley
- Yvonne Golden, Florida
- Mary Idosidis, Mill Valley, CA
- Pat Fry, Detroit
- Marty Price, Oakland
- Fran Beal, Oakland
- Marshall Garcia, NY
- Betty Kano, Berkeley
- Michael Myerson, NY
- Sharon Stewart, LA
- Carmen Rumbaut, San Antonio
- Maurice Jackson, Washington, D.C.
- Geoffrey Jacques, NY
- Arthur Kinoy, Montclair, NJ
- Melinda Brown, LA
- Leslie Shaheen, NY
Committees of Correspondence
In July 1994 Camejo was elected[5]to the 15 member National Co-ordinating Committee of Committees of Correspondence at CoC's founding conference in Chicago.
In July 1996 Peter Camejo was a member of the National Co-ordinating Committee of Committees of Correspondence. [6]
DSA
At one point Peter Camejo paid dues to Democratic Socialists of America.[7]
CrossRoads
In the mid 1990s Camejo was[8]a contributing editor to Oakland based Institute for Social and Economic Studies- sponsor of CrossRoads magazine, which sought to promote dialogue and building new alliances among progressives and leftists... and to bring diverse Marxist and socialist traditions to bear while exploring new strategies and directions for the progressive political movements.
Progressive Alliance of Alameda County
In the mid 1990’s, Peter Camejo formed the Progressive Alliance of Alameda County to which he donated twenty thousand dollars of his own money and hired Sushawn Robb as his director. However, within a year the project failed.[9]
Founding convention
The Progressive Alliance of Alameda County held its founding conference June 1 and 2,1996, Federal Building Auditorium, Oakland California.
Individuals came from the New Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Green Party and the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Supporting individuals included;[10]
Building a Third Party
Peter Camejo, addressed[11]the Third Party Summit in Washington, D.C., in June 1995 to discuss the possibility of mounting a third party. Camejo talked about o"The New Zealand Model" for building a progressive coalition. Camejo explained to the conference that in New Zealand, the Greens have joined with the New Labour Party, the Maori Mana Motuhake Party and other feminist and progressive groups to form an electoral front called the "Alliance Party." Their first successful project was to push through a proportional representation reform, a Mixed Member system like Germany's. Now the Alliance candidate, Jim Anderton, is leading in the polls, and after the November 1996 elections he may be forming a government in coalition with the "old" New Zealand Labour Party.
Autobiography
References
- ↑ Revolution in the Air, posted to www.marxmail.org on Aug. 10, 2002
- ↑ CCDS Background
- ↑ Conference program
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Proceedings of the Committees of Correspondence Conference: Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the '90s booklet, printed by CoC in NY, Sept. 1992 (Price: $4)
- ↑ http://www.greenleft.org.au/1994/155/9068
- ↑ Convention program, July 1996
- ↑ Dem. Left
- ↑ Crossroads March 1996
- ↑ http://www.experiencefestival.com/california_recall
- ↑ CrossRoads April/May 1996, page 6
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/progpop/3rdparty.html
