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Kris Hermes

Kris Hermes

Kris Hermes is a Bay Area–based activist who has worked for nearly thirty years on social justice issues. Organizing with ACT UP Philadelphia in the late 1990s spurred his interest in legal support work and led to his years-long involvement with R2K Legal. Since 2000, Hermes has been an active, award-winning legal worker-member of the National Lawyers Guild and has been a part of numerous law collectives and legal support efforts over the years. In this capacity, he has organized dozens of press conference and spoken at numerous community meetings, political conferences, book fairs, and other similar events across the U.S. Hermes has written extensively in his professional career as a media worker and as a legal activist.

Critical VoicesAugust 6, 2020<August 6, 2020

Kris Hermes: Mass Arrests in 2020 Echo the Brutality Endured by RNC Protesters 20 Years Ago

By Kris Hermes, August 1st, 2020Originally posted on TruthoutCopyright Truthout.org, Reprinted with permission. Police surrounded a West Philadelphia warehouse on the afternoon of August 1, where…

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CommentaryJuly 15, 2020<July 15, 2020

COVID-19 and Uprisings for Black Liberation Used as a Pretext for Advancing Mass Surveillance

Kris Hermes, July 15, 2020 On the night of June 1, amidst mass uprisings against police violence and structural racism, the Federal Bureau of…

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CommentaryJuly 18, 2019<July 18, 2019

Ngo More Sympathy: Mainstream Media Must Recognize the Real Threat of Fascism

A media frenzy has ensued surrounding self-proclaimed journalist Andy Ngo who sought to bring attention to his plight after he was confronted by anti-fascist…

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CommentaryJuly 27, 2018<July 30, 2018

Remaining J20 Cases Dismissed: Takeaways for Anarchists and our Social Movements

More than seventeen months after DC police “kettled” and arrested 234 protesters, journalists, medics, legal observers, and bystanders, subsequently charging them with several riot-related…

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