They don't. I've been fretting and procrastinating about putting anything up on this for want of grandiose words, manifestos, yaddah yaddah. So whatever, here goes nothing.
In Tom Hayden's "From the 60's to Barack Obama" course that he's teaching this spring at Pitzer, he's having us read his Reader (which if you've spent five minutes in a room with Tom, seems to be a laughably Tom-like thing to do...people, myself included, love to refer to Tom as if they were Tom himself talking in the third person about himself). In the reader he cites Naomi Klien as being one of the brightest minds writing today. He's right.
Klien spoke in Claremont last Fall, the day after the infamous Karl Rove incident, while I still had pepper spray in my eyes. You can check out her latest article, a great rundown of Iceland's recent riotous response to neo-liberalism with a bi-lingual bevy of great lines to yell the next time you're demonstrating against corporate raiders.
I got to Klein's article from Open Left, a blog that, while admittedly more political than what I see this space shaping up to be, is just, well, right again.
Anyway, more to come on what Claremontlibre means. In the meantime, do you homework on the e-lineage of which this blog comes from; see Professor Dana Ward's world renowned Anarchist Archives (notably his classes on Anarchy and the Internet) and the YouTube course taught at Pitzer, I believe, last-last fall semester, by Alexandra Juhasz.
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