VOA标准英语2012--Occupy Movement Turns Anger Towards Individual Corporations

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Occupy Movement Turns Anger Towards Individual Corporations

Pfizer, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical¹ company, is among the activists³' targets. Protesters rallied at Pfizer world headquarters in New York this week, alleging⁴ it sometimes charges $50 for medications that cost five cents to produce. Pediatrician Steve Auerback says consumers in Canada and New Zealand pay for less.
“Americans are paying from anywhere between two to four times the price for the same drug from the same drug companies as [in] other industrialized countries," Auerback said.
A protester carried a briefcase⁵ overflowing⁶ with play money to illustrate⁷ the demonstrators’ contention⁸ that big corporations buy off lawmakers to gain unfair political advantage. The protesters, like Gabriel Johnson, focused on the American Legislative⁹ Exchange Council, or ALEC.
“It’s an organization set up by these big corporations to try and get state legislators to vote their way on bills," Johnson alleged¹⁰.
ALEC's web site says the council is a lobbying group that advances free markets and limited government.
About 200 Occupy demonstrators also protested against Bank of America, alleging that the financial institution profited by knowingly giving mortgages to people who could not afford them.
Then the banks foreclose on people's homes, says Occupy activist² Anthony Robledo.
“So they’ve been selling the American dream to a lot of people. They’re a huge corporation; they have a lot of lobbyists,” Robledo noted¹¹.
Occupy Wall Street protesters are also targeting corporations in other cities.