Yesterday I read diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/30/173123/14
It provides links to http://www.projectbluechristmas.com/ a site which provides lists of companies that do not donate disproportionately to the Republicans (that is, either they contribute more or less evenly or do not contribute at all).
Amazon is not on that list. You want to know why?
Go to
http://www.freenortheast.com/ltred.php
It gets better. But I'll spare you the details. The upshot of my interactions with customer service and the flurry of emails between friends, and friends of friends, is this message from Katha Pollitt of The Nation, which I urge all of you to send out to like-minded friends in your address books:
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December 1,2004
Dear Friends,
In 2004, Amazon.com gave 61% of its political donations to Republicans! It seems strange to me that a bookseller should support the party of fundamentalists, creationists, bookbanners and privacy-violators, but that is unfortunately the case. Click here for details: http://www.freenortheast.com/ltred.php .
You can send Amazon a protest e mail by going to http://www.amazon.com/contact-us .
Good on-line alternatives to Amazon are Barnes & Noble, which is on the "good list" of blue companies at http://www.projectbluechristmas.com and Powell's. And don't forget your local independent book store! If they don't have the book you want in stock, they may be able to order it.
Have a Blue Christmas,
Katha Pollitt
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No fooling, you guys. The power of this site is almost as unfathomable as it is amazing. Diaries seem to fly by. But, then, you never know. I never posted in that diary, but I acted.
Now it's your turn.
Oh yeah, almost forgot-- in 2002, Amazon gave the GOP 64% of its political donations. So something tells me they're can be swayed.