Foothill Fire

Hello and welcome to the Foothill Fire website. Looking to contact us? Our instagram is @foothillfire and foothillfire@proton.me is our email.

UPCOMING EVENTS: None scheduled, but keep looking out because there will be soon! If you want to see a previous event repeated or inquire about something new, feel free to contact us (see above).

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)

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Work sucks. Come celebrate MAY DAY!!!
On Thursday, May 1st, 2025, Foothill Fire is putting on a festival of revolutionary joy to celebrate International Workers Day. This will be at Stardust Station (792 Nevada St. Nevada City, CA). We’re asking for donations at the door so we can pay the bands and the venue, but nobody will be turned away for not paying. This is an all ages event.

🪅From 3-6:30 we’ll have games, tables with zines and local organizations, and piñatas. We’ll have barbeques so you can bring something to throw on the grill, and northridge restaurant is across the street.
🎸From 7-10, we’ll have a show with a sweet lineup – Slutzville, Aruspex, Get The Wall, and Big For Nothing. Also probably some more piñatas to make the pit extra special. See you there!! 🏴🚩

Parking on Nevada St can get crowded so carpool if you can! Or walk from downtown, which takes about 15 minutes.
The space is pretty accessible, but there are some uneven surfaces, grassy areas, and gravel areas that might make it harder to navigate with a wheelchair.

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!

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 🙂

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 🙂

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

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.