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Nancy Pelosi walks past reporters after the
financial bailout package failed.

It wasn’t New York’s fault.

The House of Representatives’ failure to approve the bailout bill Monday, which sent the market plunging, came despite strong support from the New York delegation, which voted 25 to 4 in favor. Over all, the bill went down by 228 votes to 205.

The bill’s defeat is being blamed mostly on House Republicans, two-thirds of whom voted against it, but five of New York’s six GOP House members voted for the plan.

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ART FOR OBAMA is an online auction of photographs to benefit the Obama Campaign. Fifty of the country’s most prominent artists and photographers have donated their work for this cause. The auction will launch on October 1st and will run for one week. All proceeds from the auction will go to the Obama Campaign, to the Democratic National Committee and to non-profit organizations such as MoveOn.org, which are currently devoting their energy to helping the Obama campaign. Proceeds will be distributed in strict accordance with Federal Election Commmission regulations.

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Oscar-nominated writer/director Spike Lee is known for films that touch upon the African-American experience or the New York experience. So it makes sense that his latest film centers on the only African-American division that saw infantry combat in Europe during World War II. While America needed as many troops as possible to fight in the war most African-Americans serving in the military “were assigned to segregated construction or supply units or placed in units that performed unpleasant duties such as graves registration. The government’s view was that blacks were not motivated enough or aggressive enough to fight.”(1)

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