"We're stronger when we don't despair": MUST-READ email from Josh Mittelldorf

[Mark Crispin Miller]

We must never give up.

MCM

Friends, 

We're stronger when we don't despair. In fact, shocking us into giving up hope is part 

of the game plan of those who are putting on this show.  Please remember the strength 

of human bonds and the power of creativity, which has blossomed during the worst 

periods of repression in history, like flowers popping up through cracks in the pavement. 

There were loving families that held together during the starvation of the Great Leap 

Forward. There were groups that shared mimeographed books during the Stasi era 

in East Germany. There was music composed by Jews at Auschwitz. 

We will resist this clampdown, but if it should succeed temporarily, there will still be 

millions like us keeping love and truth and creativity alive until the day when the 

top-heavy system of repression topples, as it must. 

Josh