Campaigning
Kane is 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. She 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.
In 2005 Kane accepted an invitation to meet Fidel Castro at a conference in Cuba. Later that year she caused controversy when she took part in an anti-nuclear protest, locking herself to a model nuclear submarine outside the Scottish parliament. She was fined £150 for the demonstration, and was imprisoned in Cornton Vale for 14 days in October 2006 for refusing to pay the fine. In January 2007 she was arrested but not charged for taking part in a peaceful anti-nuclear demonstration at Faslane, as part of the Faslane 365 campaign.
In June 2005, along with fellow socialist MSPs Carolyn Leckie, Frances Curran and Colin Fox, she was suspended from the Scottish Parliament for the month of September for disrupting parliamentary proceedings in a peaceful protest in the chamber. They were highlighting the issue of the right to protest outside the Gleneagles Hotel, the site of the 31st G8 summit.
She has also campaigned against the treatment of toxic waste in South East Glasgow, against water fluoridation and against GM crops.
She is also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies).
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