Kris Hermes is a West Coast–based activist who has worked for nearly 30 years on social justice issues. Hermes co-founded the R2K Legal Collective to support those arrested at the Ruplican National Convention in 2000. Since then, 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. Hermes is the author of "Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000," and has written extensively in his professional career as a media worker and as a legal activist. Hermes also provided legal support for more than 200 people arrested for breaching the Trans Mountain injunction in 2018.
One of the harshest sentences for contempt in B.C. comes as the Crown adopts a policy to seek non-custodial sentences for Indigenous defendants and as COVID spreads through local jails, writes activist Kris Hermes.
