上个月在康涅狄格州郊区的一个下雨的星期六，一个超过100艘挥动抗议者的拉特塔格乐队，在贝尔避风港的门控社区，诵经，“嘿，你亿万富翁，支付公平份额！”当他们通过白色的栅栏和私人驱动器时。到达目的地，对冲基金亿万富翁拥有的海滨大厦入口Paul Tudor Jones II那founder of Tudor Investment Corp., the demonstrators crowded around one of their leaders, Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.
“We’re here in Greenwich, Connecticut!” Kink belted into a megaphone, his horn-rimmed glasses splashed with rain. “We’ll be in New York City on Park Avenue! At One57! At Central Park West!”
“We’re going to make them pay their fair share,” he continued to riotous cheers. “We’re going to make the politicians listen to the people! Regular people — not the billionaires! We the people!”
扭结之后是四名社区活动家和组织者，包括纽约社区的董事Jonathan Westin，以及纽约市学校董事会成员的Elzora Cleveland。“你的数十亿没有变化;我们这样做，“克利夫兰宣称。“我是选民。我有权对我的孩子进行公共教育，以适当的住房，到一个更公平的工资，所以我可以在没有生活福利的情况下生存。“
他们的纠察队从下雨中唱歌，示威者一致地重复了扬声器的线条。在演讲15分钟后，他们开始分散，回到从纽约交付给他们的公共汽车。“我们会回来的，”他们承诺。
下降琼斯豪宅的抗议者是在叙述者名称下组织的社区和劳动团体的成员。在随后的几个星期内，较小的篱笆飞行员 - 携带纸板篱笆快船 - 在对冲基金经理的午餐，办公室和公寓中出现，并在共和国国家参议员办公室进行了奥尔巴尼出场。他们使用演示，研究报告，社交媒体和其他工具，他们计划在未来几周和几个月内计划一系列针对对冲基金管理人员的抗议活动。目标：提高对不成比例的影响的认识，这一富人的个人是纽约政治。
对收入不平等的愤怒和对冲基金的增加政治化是篱笆剪刀后面的驱动力。本集团正在攻丝自2008年级金融崩溃以来一直建造的华尔街的骚动感，并通过竞选财务法律的变化加剧，并对似乎留下了工人阶级的经济复苏的担忧。广泛的说法，对冲快船队的反对意见可以分为四个关键问题：大笔资金在政治中的影响（特别是在纽约州），税收政策，生活工资工作和宪章学校破坏公立学校教育。在此，第一篇文章中的第一个，亚博赞助欧冠将介绍运动背后的原因，集团抗议的焦点以及未来的东西。
就像在之前的占领华尔街运动一样，对冲快船没有分享一个统一的声音。但与占领不同，他们在选择目标方面更窄得多 -对冲基金超级克里斯- 作为个性化竞选的一种方式。“与对冲快船队，对冲基金亿万富翁和对冲基金精英的特殊关注作为不平等经济的海报儿童，”Kink说。“这些是人们比其他任何人更好地表现得很好。”Kink认为琼斯和其他人的竞选贡献购买了较低的税率和税收漏洞。“他们一直在努力将系统与他们的收益继续受益，而其他人则不会”，“他补充道。琼斯拒绝通过发言人，斯图洛勒代表个人事务。
所有联盟的强大经济始于2011年，主要由当地的1199名服务雇员国际联盟（联合医疗保健工作者东部）主席乔治格塞姆和联合师范长迈克尔·麦格伦·迈克尔·麦格伦，以应对州和全市预算削减威胁教育支出和求职计划。“New York’s budget didn’t require all of those cuts to schools and services that the mayor and governor were trying to push down folks’ throats,” says Kink, who was recruited from the New York State senate, where he was chief policy adviser and senior counsel to the Democratic majority conference, to head the Strong Economy for All Coalition. “There was a different model of fiscal policy that would’ve gotten us enough money to respond without the severe cuts, and that is one of the things that we’ve been doing together for the last several years: talking about fair share taxes and revenues and bringing options to the capital every year.” In its first year the new organization received $300,000 from the New York State United Teachers, the UFT’s state-level affiliate, and $95,000 from the Communication Workers of America. NYSUT is the largest source of union funding on record, shelling out some $250,000 a year since the coalition launched, according to U.S. Department of Labor archives.
对冲快船项目将于今年2月推出它的第一个在线报告那which focused on the connections between Leonard Litwin, owner of New York–based real estate developer Glenwood Management, and Sheldon Silver, New York’s Democratic assembly speaker who resigned shortly after being arrested on federal corruption charges the previous month. The Hedge Clippers have put out eight reports since then, including an analysis of campaign contributions by hedge fund managers as well as individual reports on Jones, Third Point’s丹尼尔勒布和艾略特管理公司的保罗歌手。（洛伯和歌手都拒绝评论这个故事。）
自对冲快船的开始以来，该集团越来越多地设定了对冲基金行业的景点。由于他们的财富和竞选金融规则宽松，对冲基金管理人员已经成为联邦和州级别的政治捐赠来源。上秋季的几个对冲基金泰坦，包括铎投资公司的创始人琼斯，汇率近400万美元进入纽约人，为一个平衡的奥尔巴尼，这是一个跨宪章的学校政治行动委员会，兰德竞选委员会，并对共和党人进行政治贡献来帮助共和党人获得控制州参议院。Loeb和Tiger Management Corp.的Julian Robertson Jr.领导收费，每人100万美元。其他对冲基金经理参与的是Maverick Capital的Lee Ainslie III，Moore Capital Management的Louis Bacon，Gotham资产管理的乔尔Greenblatt，Baupost Group的Seth Klarman，Glenview资本管理拉里罗宾斯and Elliott’s Singer. To date, Jones, Loeb and Singer have all been the targets of protests, but presumably the other supporters of New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany will see cardboard hedge clippers on their doorsteps in the near future.
Hedge fund managers have been increasingly active in New York state politics, according to Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, a branch of the Washington-based lobbying group that advocates for campaign finance reform. Although there is no uniform ideology among hedge funds as a donor class, Lerner says they do sometimes cluster around certain issues like charter schools. “As opposed to the more traditional financial industry, where you see predictable giving around certain issues that influence regulation of the financial industry, the hedge fund people seem to be giving based on their own personal causes,” she explains. “And that is unusual.”
然而，对冲基金管理人员对宪章学校的热情并未受到教师的工会的欢迎。2013年，美国教师联合会发布了一份投资管理公司的表投资管理公司，其中包括四个组织中任一项的高级人员，委员会表示，倡导有界定捐款或现金余额计划的统治福利计划：学生犯，曼哈顿政策研究所和伊利诺伊州曼哈顿政策研究所破产。大多数是宪章学校的支持者。在前所未有的举动中，船尾主张养老金计划剥夺了与这些群体联系的任何经理的资产。2015年观看名单的黑名单对冲基金的经理是曼哈顿研究所主席，曼哈顿和琼斯的歌手，两人都在学生无所不在的董事会。
本月初,纽约州的腿islature passed a $150 billion budget for 2015 and infuriated the Hedge Clippers by expanding sales tax cuts for buyers of luxury yachts and private aircraft, including jets and helicopters. Whereas Tudor’s Jones might be able to save some money on his next helicopter purchase, the new budget only adds fuel to the fire of the disgruntled protesters who paid his neighborhood a visit. At the rally in Belle Haven, Darius Gordon, an organizer for Citizen Action of New York, had a message for Jones that day: “Pay your taxes. We’re people too. You put on your pants just like we do. It’s not fair that we have to fight for our crumbs while you get tax breaks for places that you don’t even live in. You don’t live in New York State. It’s not fair that you can influence New York State politics. It’s not fair that you can influence New York City public schools — our education. Our children are just as important as yours, and you need to step up.”
篱笆快速表明没有减速的迹象。在格林威治抗议之后的周末，该集团在纽约的哥伦布圈中集锦了3月15日中央公园西部 - 超统计公寓，其中洛伯着名的公寓Carl Icahn.对于4500万美元的阁楼 - 抗议第三点创始人对宪章学校和活动家投资者风格的支持。35楼的石灰石塔楼外，凯瑟琳布雷兹勒，一名宇克斯公立学校教学助理播出了纽约教师评估政策的申诉，这是基于学生考试成绩的教师。“测试不起作用，”布雷兹勒向天空喊道。“我是老师，我可以告诉你我们的孩子需要什么。我们的孩子需要对冲基金亿万富翁支付公平份额。“
在Loeb的公寓外，公民行动的戈登解释了制作篱笆击中名单的标准。“丹洛伯是我们的目标，因为他是另一个对冲基金亿万富翁，就像Paul Tudor Jones一样，”他说。“我们必须拼开他们，因为他们隐藏在建筑物后面。我们必须把一个名字放在脸上，我们正在呼唤它们。“虽然戈登指出，该集团还没有决定其下一个目标，他建议它提前了很长的名单：“所有对冲基金都应该是警惕。”
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