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Peacebus.com captain, Graeme Dunstan has been in Newcastle supporting his Rising Tide friends to mount a climate change action at the Bayswater Power Station near Muswellbrook on Saturday 1 November. He painted up the banner for the action. See illustrated report.
He was previously in the Blue Mountains making lanterns for the Festival of Joy at the Katoomba Community Gardens on Saturday 18 October.
He gets around. In Corrimal, Wollongong. On Saturday 11 October, he supported a local citizen action to reclaim a small patch of escarpment rain forest from inappropriate development by the late father of ICAC declared-corrupt property developer, Frank Vellar.. Photos posted.. Report coming.
He has been in Canberra sewing up a batch of flags for his Newcastle Rising Tide friends.
He addressed the Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (ECCO) on 24 September 2008 on the toxic consequences of cyanide leach gold mining. Orange citizens, already concerned about the overweening thirst of the Cadia gold mine, are faced with the prospects of another gold mine at near by Lucknow.
Graeme was in Canberra Friday 19 September outside Australian Federal Police headquarters calling for the sacking of the Commissioner, Mick Keelty, who had been before the Clark Inquiry into his Terror War policing under the former Terror War prime minister, John Howard. See report.
Graeme Dunstan under the banner he painted for the Newcastle Climate Camp rally 13 July 2008
Peacebus.com was an active contributor to the Climate Camp which took place in Newcastle 10-15 July. On Sunday 13 July a rally of 1000 people closed down the coal loader for 7 hours. Happy Wheels was stopped and searched by cops on two separate occasions. See Graeme's report
Graeme celebrated Independence from America Day in Byron Bay on 4 July with a small but feisty action. See 53 minute YouTube.
Graeme celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Nimbin Aquarius Festival by convening an Honorable Elders camp under the Nimbin Rocks on 16-19 May. See illustrated report.
Graeme Dunstan at Honorable Elders Camp 19 May 2008
The Captain was honored to be appointed Marshal of the 2008 Nimbin Mardi Grass parade on 4 May 2008. See story and pics.
For the previous months of 2008 he has been on the road with Cyanide Watch, the direct action campaign to bear witness to the cyanide crimes of the gold mining industry and their suppliers.
In association with a video illustrated presentation on Zapista resistance in southern Mexico at The Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, NSW, on the evening of 11 April 2008, a Cyanide Watch action took place by the rail. See In Katoomba Cart Wheeling Cyanide Free.
There have also been Cyanide Watch actions outside the gates of the Barrick Gold mine at Lake Cowal, Easter Sunday 23 March and before that outside the Stawell Gold Mine in Stawell Victoria 19 March.
There is a report of the Cyanide Watch was outside of Orica's HQ in Melbourne on Friday 29 February.
Peacebus.com was present and assisting at the Sorry Day actions and celebration at the Tent Embassy on the days 9 through 13 February 2008.
While in Canberra Peacebus.com took the opportunity to bear witness to the disgracing of Australian Federal Police Chief Commisioner, Mick Keelty, with a Speak Out outside AFP HQ on 15 February.
Peacebus.com contributed to the Sydney APEC protests by producing the Ghost Dance in Hyde Park North, Friday 7 September 2007.
But after APEC Happy Wheels required a heart transplant and was off the road. A retreat time from activism for Peacebus.com captain. Report to be posted.
2007 was a busy year for the Cyanide Watch. See reports of Cyanide Watch actions at Casino, 26 July, at the front gates of Orica's cyanide making plant at Yarwun, near Gladstone, 26 June, at Urunga, 24 May 2007 and at Chullora, 2 May.
See YouTube video of Casino Cyanide Watch.
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Here Baxter Valentine and Iggy Bravo and Grandpa Graeme in the courtyard of Mighty Nice, the animation studio of their parents Softly Sigh and Darren Price in Sydney.
And here Graeme's far away in Mexico grand daughter, Dixie Valentina Dunstan Valderrama, now 9 months old.
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