diff --git a/lib/cli/__init__.py b/lib/cli/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/lib/cli/main.py b/lib/cli/main.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..feb4fb5fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/cli/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import hammock
+import os
+import requests
+import sys
+import json
+
+# this is temporary
+username = os.getenv("ACOM_USER","admin")
+password = os.getenv("ACOM_PASS""admin")
+server   = os.getenv("ACOM_SERVER","127.0.0.1:8000")
+
+handle = hammock.Hammock("http://%s/api/v1" % server, auth=(username,password))
+
+class Collection(object):
+
+   def __init__(self, handle):
+       self.handle   = handle
+       self.response = self.accessor().GET()
+       # TODO: error handling on non-200
+       self.data     = json.loads(self.response.text)
+       self.meta     = self.data['meta']
+       self.objects  = self.data['objects']
+       self.meta     = self.data['meta']
+       self.objects  = self.data['objects']
+        
+   def accessor(self):
+       return exceptions.NotImplementedError()
+
+   def __iter__(self):
+       for x in self.objects:
+           yield Entry(x)
+
+class Entry(object):
+
+   def __init__(self, data):
+       self.data = data
+       self.resource_uri = data['resource_uri']
+       self.accessor = hammock.Hammock(self.resource_uri, auth=(username,password))
+
+   def __repr__(self):
+       return repr(self.data)
+
+class Organizations(Collection):
+
+   def accessor(self):
+       return self.handle.organizations
+
+#(Epdb) got.text
+#u'{"meta": {"limit": 20, "next": null, "offset": 0, "previous": null, "total_count": 1}, "objects": [{"active": true, "creation_date": "2013-03-15", "description": "testorg!", "id": 1, "name": "testorg", "resource_uri": "/api/v1/organizations/1/"}]}'
+#
+
+try:
+    orgs = Organizations(handle)
+    for x in orgs:
+       print x
+except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
+    print "connect failed"
+    sys.exit(1)
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bd7a98f671..f01880de59 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ django-tastypie==0.9.12
 ipython==0.13.1
 South==0.7.6
 python-dateutil==1.5
+hammock