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Group Calls For Amazon Boycott

Posted at 6:53PM Wednesday 10 Mar 2010

A day after Amazon terminated its Associates program in Colorado, ProgressNow Colorado is calling on its 200,000 members to boycott the online retailer until the e-tailer reinstates the program. In a statement posted on its Web site and e-mailed to members Monday, the seven-year-old progressive advocacy organization, headquartered in Denver, described Amazon as "playing political football with Colorado Business Partners" by dropping them in response to the state legislature passing a law imposing sales tax on all online retailers that sell into the state.

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