Foothill Fire!
Sunday, April 5th, 2026Hello and welcome to the Foothill Fire website. Looking to contact us? Our instagram is @foothillfire and foothillfire@proton.me is our email.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Self Defense Saturday, March 7th, 11am-1pm at the Banner Grange Hall (see post below). May Day, May 1st, 2026, at the Oddfellows Hall in Nevada City.
The shortest possible description of us is this: we’re an organization of anarchists and communists fighting for a stateless, classless society. We host skillshares and talks and shows and we also make art and zines. Speaking of zines, here is our current selection:
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ZINES
“Zine” is short for “magazine”. They’re little booklets made to share art and ideas, and you’ll find ours linked below. The “print” version is set up with the pages in an order that lets you print, fold, staple, and read it like a little magazine. The “read” version is made to be read on your phone or computer, so it’s just set up in the order you read it in. All of these are subject to review, updates, and improvements. Please feel free to share, copy, and distribute them if you want to.
🌄AS THE SUN SETS: getting started with preparedness shares ideas and practices for preparedness (or “prepping”). It talks about preparing for the worst and hoping for the best, how to fit preparedness in, strategies for anxiety, why you shouldn’t leave anyone behind, disability and preparedness, and some practical stuff on storing food, water, and other necessary items. Version 8 (READ | PRINT)
🤼CONFLICT WAR GAMES: how people who organize together can practice conflict is a pitch for healthier conflict practices and a format for people to practice criticism, disagreement, and conflict. It talks about ways to give criticism, ways to receive criticism, and some pitfalls there. We’ve found it to be very effective. Version 1 (PRINT)
🌸THINKING FOR THE REVOLUTION: struggling with dialectics is a collection of quotes from revolutionaries and a discussion of dialectics and historical materialism. It is a result of our collective commitment to sharpen action by struggling with theory, following the idea that without revolutionary theory there can’t be revolutionary action. Version 6 (PRINT)
🫂WELCOME: experience based advice for joining mass movements is what we wish we’d known when we first started. It talks about security culture, where to fit yourself in, what to bring and where to start on safety, how to treat tear gas exposure, about peace policing and the myth of outside agitators, and PLENTY more that we wish we’d known. Version 4 (READ | PRINT)
🐍RATTLES: recognizing hate groups and symbols is a guide to hateful symbols and ideas and a primer to let you recognize supremacist patterns beyond just what is mentioned there. When you see a hate symbol, it’s a “rattle” letting you know something dangerous is around – your enemy is showing itself, let that give you the advantage. Those hate groups are also just the “rattle” of a larger beast – the beast of empire. Version 2 (In color: READ | PRINT) (In black and white: READ | PRINT)
🧊ICE: where did it come from, and where should it go? is a handout we made for our March 2nd theory event by the same name. It’s less an original zine and more a transcript of quotes from the Upstream podcast episode “Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion with Cecilia Guerrero” with question prompts. (READ | PRINT)
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