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ANDREA BRUNAIS is a prizewinning journalist and former editorial executive with Knight Ridder, Media General and other news organizations. She is coauthor of the forthcoming book "I See Your Name Everywhere!" published by Morgan James (a guide to media relations for career professionals seeking publicity). Her work has been published in Creative Loafing, BookPage, BluefieldNews.Net, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.

"She is a journalist of wide influence in Florida because her judgments are backed up by hard facts, and she is relentless in gathering those facts. She is a superior, fearless reporter who writes opinion with power and grace."
-Lawrence McConnell, managing editor of the Tampa Tribune, nominating Andrea Brunais for a Pulitzer in 1992.

"A journalist's eye for detail and a poet's understanding of things of the heart"
-Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women Had Wings, reviewing Andrea Brunais' first novel, Night of the Litani.

Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace How today's anti-war protesters face harassment by pro-Bush citizens

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Going to the mall (like the good little consumers we are programmed to be) is a quintessential American activity. Just don't get any ideas that you might be allowed to exercise your right to free speech. Just ask 80-year-old Don Zirkel, who served in the Army and once edited a Roman Catholic newspaper in Brooklyn. He was arrested at a mall in Lake Grove, N.Y., for wearing a T-shirt protesting the war in Iraq. His arraignment date is May 22, 2008. Here's what happened: An antiwar rally took place outside the Smith Haven Mall. Zirkel and his wife showed up in support. They then entered the m...

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