Patrick Harvie MSP

Patrick Harvie (born 18 March 1973 in Vale of Leven, Dunbartonshire) is a Green Member of the Scottish Parliament. He was elected to represent the Glasgow region in the 2003 election. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (690x636, 30 KB)Patrick Harvie, Scottish Green Party MSP for Glasgow. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (690x636, 30 KB)Patrick Harvie, Scottish Green Party MSP for Glasgow. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Vale of Leven is an area of Scotland in West Dunbartonshire concentrated around the River Leven, which flows from Loch Lomond to the River Clyde. ... Dunbartonshire is one of the Traditional counties of Scotland, in that part of the country formerly called Lennox (which was a title of nobility). ... The Scottish Green Party (Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the Green party of Scotland, and a full member of the European Federation of Green Parties. ... The Scottish Parliaments logo in English and Gaelic. ... Glasgow is one of the eight electoral regions for elections to the Scottish Parliament from which 7 of the parliaments 56 Additional Members System (AMS) MSPs are elected. ... The Scottish parliamentary election, 2003, was the second general election of the Scottish Parliament. ...

Professional career

From 1997 till his election in 2003, Harvie worked within the Gay Men's Project at the sexual health organisation PHACE Scotland (previously PHACE West) initially as a youth worker and later as Development Worker for the Lanarkshire Health Board area. Although this work was principally concerned with HIV prevention, it also involved Harvie in equality campaigning. During this period, he was active in the campaign to repeal Section 2A of the Local Government Act, more commonly known as Section 28. This campaign was successful, and Harvie has stated that the experience prompted him to become more actively involved in politics, leading to his joining the Scottish Green Party. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig in Gaelic) is a traditional county of Scotland. ... Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a retrovirus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. ... Sir Ian McKellen with Michael Cashman at the 1988 Gay Rights March on Manchester in protest of Section 28. ...

Parliamentary work

Harvie has gained attention both for issues strongly associated with the Greens, such as campaigning against the extension to the M74 motorway in Glasgow, and for more 'mainstream' issues such as opposition to the Identity Cards Bill. Quickly after becoming an MSP he caused some controversy by proposing civil partnership legislation in the Scottish Parliament. Though this legislation was ultimately handled at Westminster and covered the whole UK, the distinctive Scottish proposals helped to stimulate some public debate north of the border, both on the issue of same-sex relationships and on the process known as a Legislative Consent Motion by which the Scottish Parliament allows Westminster to legislate for the whole UK. M74 near Larkhall. ... After many years of discussion through successive governments, in 2003 Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that the government intends to introduce a British national identity card linked to a national identity database, the National Identity Register. ... A civil union is one of several terms for a civil status similar to marriage, typically created for the purposes of allowing homosexual couples access to the benefits enjoyed by married heterosexuals (see also same-sex marriage); it can also be used by couples of differing sexes who do not... The Scottish Parliaments logo in English and Gaelic. ... A Legislative Consent Motion (formerly known as a Sewel motion) is a parliamentary motion passed by the Scottish Parliament, in which it agrees that the Parliament of the United Kingdom may pass legislation on a devolved issue extending to Scotland, over which the Scottish Parliament has regular legislative authority. ...

Harvie has been a member of the Communities Committee of the Scottish Parliament since his election in 2003, and through this committee has worked on the Antisocial Behaviour Bill, the Charities Bill and the Housing Bill, as well as on issues of homelessness, debt, the planning system and building standards. A homeless person in Paris. ... For other uses, see Debt (disambiguation). ...

In addition to the Communities portfolio, Harvie covers the Justice portfolio for the Greens, and has been active on a number of civil liberties issues. Since 2003, he has also been convenor of the Cross Party Group (CPG) on Human Rights, and helped to establish a CPG on Sexual Health. Civil liberties is the name given to freedoms that protect the individual from government. ...

Harvie's work on these issues and others was recognised in 2004 when he was given the 'One to Watch' award at the annual Scottish Politician of the Year event. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scottish Politician of the Year is an annual award established in 1999. ...

Patrick Harvie MSP

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Miscellaneous

Harvie is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, and a patron of Parents' Enquiry Scotland. He is a board member of the Glasgay! arts festival, and a member of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Equality Network, Stonewall (UK), Amnesty International, Humanist Society of Scotland and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. Harvie writes a weekly column in the Scottish edition of the Big Issue. The National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism. ... Greenpeace is an international environmental organisation founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971. ... Friends of the Earth is an international network of environmental organizations in 70 countries. ... LGBT rights Around the world · By country History · Groups · Activists Same-sex relationships Opposition · Persecution Violence The Equality Network is an Edinburgh based organisation which campaigns for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Scotland. ... 1988 Sir Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman of Stonewall. ... Amnesty International symbol Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) comprising a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.[1] Essentially it compares actual practices of human rights with internationally accepted standards and demands compliance where these have not... The Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) is a Scottish organisation that promotes Humanist views. ... The Big Issue is a magazine sold in five editions across England, Wales and Scotland by homeless and recently-homeless people. ...

He is bisexual, and may be the first openly bisexual parliamentarian in the United Kingdom. In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...

Harvie is an advocate of Open Source and Free Software, and a Linux user. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Linux refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. ...

External links

• http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/
• http://www.scottishgreens.org/
• Scottish Parliament biography
• Patrick Harvie MSP Open Rights Group