March 30th – Know Your Rights

March 9th, 2025 by foothillfire

On Sunday, March 30th, from 2:30-4:00pm at UUCM (246 S Church St, Grass Valley, CA) we will be hosting Norcal Resist for a Know Your Rights training!

Come learn about your rights and what to do when interacting with police officers and immigration agents. Thanks to Norcal Resist for making this event possible!

Accessibility The space is large and wheelchair accessible. We will provide free N95 masks but we aren’t requiring that they be worn. All ages welcome.

This event is totally free, but if you want to help make sure events like this can keep happening, you can donate 🙂

This is part of a lot of programming we have going, including theory discussions March 20th and April 17th, a first aid training April 12th, and save the date for an event we’re planning May 1st!

March 20th and April 17th – Thinking for the Revolution

March 9th, 2025 by foothillfire

On March 20th and April 17th from 6:30-7:30 pm we will be continuing our open-to-the-public study session series in the Gene Albaugh Community Room of Madelyn Helling Library (980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA).

In this session we will continue to look at the basics of dialectical materialism through the writings of a variety of revolutionaries who applied this concept both in theory and in practice. These are the second and third events in a series of study sessions where we dig into the big questions like “What drives historical change?” and “What is capitalism?”

Reading materials will be provided at the event. No prior knowledge of the subject is required or expected.

Accessibility: the space is wheelchair accessible and has a maximum seated capacity of 73. We will be providing free N95 masks but are not requiring that they be worn for this event.

This community event is totally free but if you’d like to donate to help events like this continue to happen, let us know 🙂

February 13th – Thinking for the Revolution

February 8th, 2025 by foothillfire

On February 13, 2025, from 6:30-7:30 pm, we will be holding an open to the public study session in the Gene Albaugh Community Room of Madelyn Helling Library (980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA).

In this session we will be looking at the basics of dialectical materialism through the writings of a variety of revolutionaries who applied this concept both in theory and in practice. This is intended to be the first in a series of study sessions where we dig into the big questions like “What drives historical change?” and “What is capitalism?”

Reading materials will be provided at the event. No prior knowledge of the subject is required or expected.

Accessibility: the space is wheelchair accessible and has a maximum seated capacity of 73. We will be providing free N95 masks but are not requiring that they be worn for this event.

This community event is totally free but if you’d like to donate to help events like this continue to happen, let us know 🙂

Jan 25th – First Aid Skills for Uncertain Times

January 15th, 2025 by foothillfire

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Hello!

On January 25th, 2025, from 4-6pm, we will be holding a first aid training event in the Gene Albaugh Community Room of Madelyn Helling Library (980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA).

We will cover topics like bleeding control, opioid overdose reversal, and chemical irritant exposure, and the training will be taught by a registered EMT.

Accessibility   The space is wheelchair accessible and has a maximum seated capacity of 73. We will be providing free N95 masks but are not requiring that they be worn for this event. People of all ages are welcome, but there will be some graphic content discussed.

Graphic Content    Content discussed may include bleeding, the kind of violence that leads to bleeding, drug overdose, and discussion of intense dynamic environments. We will not be showing graphic images, videos, or audio.

This community event is totally free thanks to Foothill Fire, but if you’d like to donate to help events like this continue to happen, let us know 🙂

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We Are Fire

December 21st, 2024 by foothillfire

We Are Fire

Get up. Go to work. Make ends meet. Even when the economy is good you can’t pay rent. On your phone you see forests in flames and hope this year it won’t be your turn to burn. You watch your kids grow and wonder what world they’re going to inherit. You hope they’ll be among the lucky ones. Will there be lucky ones in twenty years?

Something has to change.

We don’t have all the answers, but we know that we can’t change things on our own. We need to stand together. What does it look like to stand together, and who is “we”? “We” are those ones who would benefit from a new way. Figuring out what it looks like to stand together is a harder question, but if you’re reading this and feeling moved, then we’re finding each other. We’re already taking steps towards an answer.