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Patrick Harvie: Empowering communities, particularly the kind of community groups that organise to look after the interests of…

On the recordJune 16, 2026
Empowering communities, particularly the kind of community groups that organise to look after the interests of marginalised people like refugees and asylum seekers, community groups which create capacity and understanding and relations between members of a community.
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Patrick Harvie
Scottish Green Party

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Proposing solutions to combat far-right influence.

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