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 [...]