In Bed with a MosquitoBetty Brassell, a 78 year old retired telephone operator born and raised in rural Georgia, spends nearly every day rain or shine protesting in the streets of New York City, her walker currently emblazoned with Arrest Cheney. Although she still holds on to her thick Southern drawl, Betty has called Manhattans Lower East Side home for more than 50 years, after escaping an abusive marriage and relocating with her children to New York in 1954. When she