Advocates of Change

10/12/2025

First, Eryn Sionnach won the Billy Brouse Synth!!!!!

Second, huuuuge thanks again to everyone who donated to the AoC fundraisers for UPROAR, Uniting Prisoners' Relatives Organizing Against Repression, at the last four shows!!!!

Thanks to all your donations, we raised $1236 in the raffle, and another couple hundred in print and sticker sales!!!

UPROAR is a mass organization that fights prison abuse by unionizing directly impacted people and their loved ones, tracking and documenting prison abuses and developing strategies of exposure and resistance. It was co-founded earlier this year by Evi of AoC with a Virginia prisoner and an outside loved one of a Maryland prisoner.

One of our members' loved ones is in prison in Virginia with a severe case of scabies, facing retaliatory medical neglect and solitary confinement after suing the virginia department of corruption. Isaac was sentenced in New Mexico but sent to Virginia via the "Interstate Corrections Compact", which has been accurately described as human trafficking.

Isaac hasn't seen his fiancé in years, and much of the money we raised this weekend together through community-donated art and memorabilia raffles and sales will be used to fly Isaac's fiancé Lynette from New Mexico to Virginia for a visit. Link to his story in the comments.

I can't wait to tell Lynette, she's going to be over the moon with gratitude for all of y'all.

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to practice the science and art of change, interconnection, and development - to end the illusion of separation. Love yall so much

10/05/2025

10/04/2025

We're all set up at for Subterranea Festival hosted by , raising funds for and highlighting the worker organizations and !

As usual, we'll randomly draw some winners' names from among donors, and we'll give away some beautiful art at the end of the weekend in appreciation for your donations!

Prizes include prints from
, , and , as well as a SIGNED 2012 poster from Papadosio's 2012(!!!) TETIOS tour!

Additionally, we have a legendary relic of Papadosio history, an old and retired synthesizer that belonged to - this synth is the one on which such classics as The Eyes Have Eyes was written and recorded. We want to give other dosio fans a chance to win this prize, too, so we'll wait until next weekend to draw the winner, and we'll include all donors this weekend and next in the pool.

Words can't express how grateful we are to be part of this community, and we're very glad to get to close out this era of papadosio history with yall.

Stop by the booth today or tomorrow to say high and to check out our educational literature and our awesome little art collective.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

08/29/2025

🚨 Advocates of Change x UPROAR Waffle Update! 🚨

Our pendant raffle is about 30% to goal – thank you to everyone who’s gotten us this far! 💎✊

And we’re adding a brand new waffle:
👉 A signed Papadosio 2016 tour poster (LE 20, autographed, designed by Patrick Milescu).

Last weekend we brought this poster to Good People Good Times Festival in Indiana, where Papadosio played, and raised $88 of the $200 goal. 🎶
This weekend we’re in Asheville for Papadosio and will be flyering the shows – so this one’s a hybrid online + IRL waffle. 🌍✨

📲 Links in bio to enter both raffles.
Let’s build UPROAR together.

06/30/2025

new campaigns are up on the UPROAR website, please make sure you send some emails and make some calls this week!

06/03/2025

We’re returning to The Caverns in Grundy County, TN for Subterranea on October 4 & 5- this will be our final festival celebration as we step away from touring for the foreseeable future. We couldn’t imagine a more beautiful way to say see you later!

We’ll be playing four special sets across the weekend, joined by some of our closest friends and collaborators: Flying Mojito Bros, 5AM Trio, EarthCry Live (feat. Mike Healy), Somatoast, Maxfield, Erothyme, and Healyside (feat. Mike Healy & Asher Hill).
Cave shows. Sound baths. Guided cave tours. Fall colors.
Fireside hangs. A beautiful wooded trail connecting the campground to the cave. This one means a lot to us-and we hope to share it with you.

Sign up now to receive a code for first access to tickets,
VIP packages, and more when the presale begins this Thursday, June 5th at 10a CT: TheCaverns.com/SubterraneaPresale
Tickets, camping passes, and add-ons will be available to the general public this Friday, June 6th at 10a CT at TheCaverns.com/Subterranea

05/08/2025

🌿 ADVOCATES OF CHANGE x UPROAR AT KICKSVILLE 🌿  

We’re on the ground at Kicksville Festival (May 9-10) amplifying the fight for prison justice with UPROAR!  

📍 Find us at the main stage booth or with volunteers in the campgrounds to:  
✨ Donate for a chance to win handcrafted art and signed dosio setlists!
📱 Scan QR codes to send a 60-second email blast to 40 VA officials demanding justice for prisoners abused at Red Onion and Wallens Ridge.  

CAN’T ATTEND? STILL TAKE ACTION!  
🔗 DONATE & WIN: Enter the pendant waffle online for a stunning pendant via bit.ly/pendant-entry (entries start at $3!).  
✊ AMPLIFY URGENT DEMANDS:  
📧 Email blast: bit.ly/hunger-strike-support  
📞 Phone zap: bit.ly/uproar-may-phonezap  

🔥 RED ONION IS IN CRISIS: 8 men on hunger strike, self-immolation, and self-harm as cries for help. Your voice breaks the silence.  

💪 LOVE + COLLECTIVE ACTION = POWER. Join UPROAR’s fight: bit.ly/join-uproar.  

  

👉 Share to fuel the UPROAR! 🔄

03/27/2025

Charli is a rideshare driver, a mother, a grandmother—and an organizer with the Atlanta Rideshare Drivers Union and Southern Gig Drivers, who gave everything to support her fellow workers.

In February, she threw herself into organizing for the Valentine’s Day Strike—rallying drivers in the lot, speaking at city council, and working overnight shifts just to make ends meet.

After days without rest, she collapsed from exhaustion. She suffered a stroke, and she’s now in recovery—unable to work and facing mounting expenses.

This isn’t a tragic accident. It’s the result of a system built to extract as much labor as possible, for as little as possible—without care for who it harms.

We’re standing up for Charli the way she stood up for all of us.

Here’s how you can support her this week:

💸 Donate to her GoFundMe – Link in bio / https://gofund.me/9185226e
🎶 Visit our table this Friday at the Papadosio show at Variety Playhouse – We’ll be fundraising with art + info
🛍️ Buy donated art at theadvocatesofchange.com/store – Proceeds go to Charli’s recovery

This is what solidarity looks like. This is how we fight and heal—together.

✊🏾

02/15/2025

RP from :

Since the ceasefire agreement first came into effect, Israel has arrested more Palestinians in the West Bank than it has released as part of the ongoing prisoner exchange deal.

The escalations across a number of cities in the West Bank, dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” have led to the arrest of 380 Palestinians across mostly Jenin and Tulkarem. This is more than the number of releasees, who total 358 Palestinian prisoners, released in the exchange.

Israel is deliberately and systematically increasing its repression and abduction of Palestinians in one part of occupied Palestine after agreeing to peace in another. This is not new. In November 2023, during an agreed-upon four day truce and subsequent prisoner exchange in the Gaza Strip, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners during the same time period that it arrested 133 more Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Amany Sarahneh, spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners Society, told Al Jazeera that they “actually expected more people to be arrested during these four days.”

Israel’s use of baseless detainment via its so-called “administrative detention” policy is retaliation for Palestinian resistance. It underscores the false equivalency of these exchanges, and the bad faith with which Israel and its proxy, the US, attempt to maneuver around agreements and defy their terms.

In the first two weeks after October 7, 2023, Israel doubled the number of Palestinian in detainment, from 5,200 to almost 10,000. That number now stands at nearly 15,000, almost triple what it was in October 2023.

Israel aims to overwhelm the undeniable euphoria of our prisoners’ long-awaited freedom with the promise of increased, and increasingly violent, arrests. But Gaza has shown us time and time again that there are no conditions that will force Palestinians to abandon their land. Every release inspires our people to keep struggling, and every arrest is another release to come.

02/14/2025

Stop by our table this weekend at Papadosio’s shows in RVA to learn about how you can join or support Families United Against Prison Abuse, the DMV Drivers Alliance, and the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee!

Fundraiser prizes this weekend include three limited edition 11x14 prints of this Happy Dosio Valentine's Day piece by ! We'll also have signed Papadosio setlists as prizes!

Donate for a chance to win!