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In an earlier incarnation, Bruce Mulkey was an arrogant pickup-truck-driving, beer-swilling, self-centered cynic who built log houses for a living. Having miraculously survived that era, he now is a politically progressive, spiritually aware, bike-riding, cat-loving organizer/writer living contentedly with his wife, Shonnie Lavender, in the southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
Bruce's viewpoints, essays and articles have appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times, where he served as an editorial columnist from 2000 through 2004, YES! Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Western North Carolina Woman, Common Dreams News Center, as well as numerous other print and online publications. Bruce and Shonnie co-authored I Do! I Do! The Marriage Vow Workbook, which was published in July 2006. He has also published two collections of his commentaries–Peaceful Patriots: Taking a stand for peace in an era of endless war and Walking Our Talk: Taking radical responsibility for our lives and our world.
For three months prior to the November 4, 2008 election, Bruce served as a field organizer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In this challenging role he enrolled and empowered several hundred volunteers in two rural southern Ohio counties to organize phone banks and door-to-door canvassing in support of Obama's candidacy. These volunteers surpassed every get-out-the-vote goal set by the campaign, and in both counties Obama exceeded the percentage of the vote received by John Kerry in 2004.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Obama calls on us to help change the nation
It may still be business as usual for many Washington insiders. But here in Asheville and across the land, a powerful movement of energized citizen-activists has arisen. Barack Obama has rekindled the hopeful vision for our nation that lies deep within each of us.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Join the intervention tomorrow to change the course of our nation
Today the Bush administration and Congress-intoxicated by the drugs of power, arrogance, hubris and greed-are in denial regarding their addictions and continue to proceed in a perilous direction. Tomorrow, for our sake and for the sake of our nation, we must intervene.
