Patrick Meier

Winter in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭
(📷: me)

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Crowdsourcing 3D printing for nonviolent civil resistance.

Scalable & Brilliant! 👏

Along with mobile phones & radios, whistles are playing a vital role in community-centered early warning systems across Minneapolis.

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This is a must-read. Andrea literally wrote the book on the global history of concentration camps.

Please read this 🙏

Sending a little peace and quiet from the Swiss Alps tonight 🏔️🇨🇭

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

YouTube video by scaredketchup ICE, F**K You - A Protest Song for Minneapolis

ICE, F You - A Protest Song for Minneapolis

youtube.com/watch?v=4PUO...

This morning’s sunrise in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

Thanks for sharing!

This finding beats the previous record of oldest cave art by 30,000 years 😮

“The findings add to a growing body of evidence showing that early human creativity did not emerge in a single place, nor was it confined to ice age Europe.”

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“The story of human creativity is far older, richer and more geographically diverse than we once imagined.”

The earliest cave art ever found was just (re)discovered in limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back 67,800 years!

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phys.org/news/2026-01...

At first brush, Picasso’s The Bay of Cannes looks calm and quiet, but it’s also rebellious: the boats don’t recede into space—they stack almost vertically, flattening the scene. It’s Picasso in his late years saying, “I know the rules of perspective… and I’m choosing not to follow them.” 🎨

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?”

- Waiting for Godot (1952), by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

Below, from a 2010 NYT article on my early work on crisis mapping…

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www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/w...

"Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower, in April 1945

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What would we know about what passed between Turks and Armenians, between Germans and Jews, if every one of them had had the chance, before the darkness, to declare for all time: “I was here, and this is what happened to me”?

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www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/w...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

In the Swiss Alps this morning 🏔️🇨🇭

Scenes from the series Andor with the caption : I have friends everywhere

Hey US Friends,

Greetings from Switzerland 👋 🇨🇭

Check out this local field manual on nonviolent community resistance to the 🧊 occupation in Minnesota. These tactics & strategies can be applied in your cities too:

docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

See also:

defend612.com/resources

Today’s time-lapse from the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

"Exactitude is not truth." - Henri Matisse

"Real painters do not paint things as they are....They paint them as they themselves feel them to be." - Vincent Van Gogh

Thanks for sharing 🙏

I appreciated their point re: it’s not market failure, it’s values failure. I’d take it one step further and suggest it’s about power and *who* gets to decide the values.

Thanks again!

We walk the talk on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) at beV. Just over 50% of fellows identify as women while more than 50% come from rural, resource-constrained communities. The latter have access to monthly & technology stipends to support their participation in the multi-year fellowship.

Next up: monthly 10-hour train to Berlin to join my team at beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship. We enable young founders from 65+ countries to launch locally-led climate & sustainability ventures: bevisioneers.world

Today in the Swiss Alps 🏔️🇨🇭

#grateful 🏔️🇨🇭

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