The Fourth of July weekend is coming up and progressives all over Maine should take the occasion to celebrate Independence. We need to march shoulder to shoulder to show Maine that we support peace, and justice, and true democracy. Two of the best ways to do that are by taking to the streets and marching [...]

From the FireDogLake website…..
The Women’s Campaign Forum was brave enough to take the leap…will FDL be?
The Women’s Campaign Forum, a sizable DC organization promoting women in politics in a transpartisan way, endorsed their first Green candidate in Lynne Williams, a respected Maine attorney for environmental and other causes and former gubernatorial [...]

When the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce announced this year that the organizers of the Independence Day parade “would like to keep the event as green as possible” it made perfect sense to those of us Greens in Hancock County to be part of the parade. After all, what could be greener than the Maine [...]

I have received notice that I have been certified as a Clean Elections candidate by the Maine State Ethics Commission, having turned in 189 validated qualifying contributions. This is great news and will give me the funding to run a fabulous campaign.
I am now also featured on the Women’s Campaign Forum website, as an endorsed [...]

I am very pleased to have received the endorsement of the D.C. based Women’s Campaign Forum, for my State Senate race. The WCF is the oldest, national non-partisan political committee of its kind, and endorses only women who support reproductive health choices for all.
It provides technical assistance, financial support and great contacts. Hopefully [...]

The Maine Green Independent Party’s Legislative Recruitment Committee did an excellent job this year, and will have 18 Legislative candidates on the November ballot. All of these candidates, as well as many volunteers, worked hard to collect nomination signatures to make this happen.
One of those candidates was Michael Good of Bar Harbor, who filed as [...]

On St. Patrick’s Day I joined Jill Stein, Green Rainbow Party Candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and Laura Wells, Green Candidate for Governor of CA, on an Internet radio show to discuss “The Wearing of the Green Tea Party Vote,”as we discussed how vital a New Green ReGrowth Vote will be this election year.
Click [...]

Dear Supporters,
I am announcing today that I am suspending my campaign for governor, and will instead focus my energies towards building up our party by helping to elect Green Party candidates for state, county and local office.
Despite having more than 60 volunteer petition circulators working on my behalf, we fell short of the required 2,000 [...]

Monday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. I participated in a radio show about that topic and about marriage equality along with Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for Governor in Massachusetts. You can listen to the show here by click on the black play button below.
Also please consider sharing this among your communities using [...]

Congratulations to the Town of Deer Isle for being the first community in the nation to vote in favor of a resolution calling on Congress to ‘Bring Our War $$ Home.’  They took this brave action at their annual town meeting Monday night, voting on a warrant article introduced by Veterans for Peace and CodePink.
The [...]

Feb.18, 2010
In its lead editorial today, the Bangor Daily News called for a third party to become more involved in solving the political gridlock now apparent in our political system.
Here in Maine, we already have a third party, the Maine Green Independent Party. The Bangor Daily News has said what our party has been saying [...]

In light of the current budget crisis facing Maine I have decided to forego public funding for our campaign. Going forward we will instead run a privately-funded effort.
We’ve been agonizing over this for several weeks, and while we solidly support the concept of public funding for gubernatorial elections, it appears the position of the Maine [...]

Jan. 31, 2010
Tux Turkel’s piece in Sunday’s Portland Press Herald (January 31, 2010) was only a keyhole look at the influential connections between industrial wind industry executives and functionaries and Maine’s power elite.  The defensive responses of those with such connections, that their behavior is legal and appropriate, is not unexpected.  However, legality does not [...]

When I was in school I was never very interested in history. It appeared to me to be a dry and boring collection of dates, places and names that never really engaged me. The only history that I was interested in was what Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Sophocles wrote in their plays. They [...]

This decision doesn’t make a dramatic change in our political system because corporations already control the political debate in this country.  It further legitimizes an already corrupt system by allowing corporations to spend shareholder and customer money on direct political attempts to influence voting. Corporations and unions will no longer have to hide behind the [...]

Green Independent Party gubernatorial Lynne Williams Thursday called for the State of Maine to create an economic climate based on sustainability. The former chair of the Maine Green Party delivered the Party’s response to the annual State of the State address by Governor John Baldacci.
Currently, Williams said, neither the state’s budget process, its economic development [...]

President Obama has just announced he will be sending another 30,000  troops to Afghanistan.  That’s 30,000 more American men and women ripped from their communities and families, and placed in harm’s way, to fight a war that history proves cannot be won.

We cannot sit back and allow this escalation to occur.
On Dec . 12 I [...]

The Maine Green Independent Party has a great opportunity to show national leadership by electing this country’s first Green Party governor, Lynne Williams (http://LynneWilliams2010.org)
The Maine 2010 gubernatorial election is an open seat, as the incumbent governor cannot seek re-election due to Maine’s term limits law. Currently there are 22 candidates registered with the Maine Ethics [...]

Maine Green Independent Party candidate for governor Lynne Williams said Wednesday she was “bitterly disappointed” that a slim majority of voters was able to repeal Maine’s marriage equality law, but took heart in the results of some of the other voting in Tuesday’s election.

Beginning Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009,  M aine registered voters may make $5 contributions to the Maine Clean Election Fund on my behalf.
In order to qualify for Clean election funding, our campaign must collect a minimum  of 3,250 contributions. It’s crucial to the campaign that we get this work done quickly.
Please go to our contributions page [...]

by Lynne Williams, Bar Harbor

I was raised in an Irish Catholic family in New York City, and spent twelve years in Catholic schools. I had my son baptized, and he also received his sacrament of Holy Communion. I even taught Sunday school to little kids. I’ve attended luncheons for Catholic lawyers and even gone to some Red Masses in Portland, where the Catholic bar and judiciary gather. I took five years of Latin and participated in the Latin mass prior to Vatican II in 1960.

I was always drawn to the social justice elements of Catholicism, at the same time as I was repelled by its rabid anti-choice rhetoric, which was grounded in hypocrisy. To this day I greatly respect the internal moral consistency of conservative Justice John Noonan, of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who challenged the bishop of San Francisco to require his priests to spend as much time speaking against capital punishment as they spend speaking against choice. At the same time, that same diocese was welcoming and supporting of gay and lesbian congregants, and provided a lifeline for many of those congregants who were living with AIDS.

However, the schizoid nature of the church is becoming overwhelmingly apparent in Maine as we move along towards a November vote on Proposition One, the repeal of marriage equality.

Lately there have been numerous discussions and debates centered on corporate control of water and wind, and now our broadband and Internet access is being threatened by out-of-state corporations. The Aug. 4 Bangor Daily News reports that FairPoint Communications has hired a well-known public utility lobbying firm to oppose the University of Maine System’s efforts to bring better broadband and Internet access to Maine. Just like First Wind’s efforts to control wind generation sites, and Nestle’s continuing attempts to privatize our water, FairPoint now seeks to privatize broadband and, in the height of arrogance, says it’s unfair for a public university to compete against a private company for public funds.

As you know, I have made the commitment to run as a candidate for governor of Maine in 2010. I am proud to be running as a Maine Green Independent candidate, since our party is the only viable alternative to the corporate parties. Through our campaign, we can create a transformative political movement in order to advance our Ten Key Values in civil society.

About a year or so ago