Rosemary "Rosie" Kane is a Scottish Socialist Party politician.
13 Facts About Rosie Kane
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Rosie Kane was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Region from 2003 to 2007.
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Rosie Kane served on the National Executive committee of the party for a number of years and as the party's environmental spokesperson, writing a column "One World" for the Scottish Socialist Voice.
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Rosie Kane stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in 2003, and was placed second on the party's list in Glasgow region.
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Rosie Kane was elected alongside Tommy Sheridan, who was first on the list.
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On 6 November 2003, Rosie Kane appeared on Question Time alongside the SNP's Alex Salmond, Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson, Tory MP Francis Maude and Peter Oborne of The Spectator.
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In 2005, Rosie Kane accepted an invitation to meet Fidel Castro at a conference in Cuba.
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Rosie Kane remains active in the fight to end the detention of children at Dungavel asylum detention centre, as well as campaigns for migrants rights and against dawn raids.
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Rosie Kane personally paid the bail for a Cameroonian woman called Mercy Ikolo and her Ireland-born 18-month-old baby to allow them to leave the centre, inviting them to stay with her and her daughters in their tenement flat until their visa issues were resolved.
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Since September 2012, Rosie Kane has been involved in the Women for Independence campaign for Scottish independence.
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Rosie Kane is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and became a grandmother in February 2011.
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In 2011, Rosie Kane played the role of a mother in a play written by future SSP co-spokesperson Sandra Webster as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Five Minute Theatre project.
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Rosie Kane appeared in An Evening with Rosie Kane in May 2012 and played herself in I, Tommy in September 2013.