Victims of a brutal fire, high schoolers urge Make Polluters Pay
Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM MST
In January 2025, widfires brought enormous devastation to the Los Angeles basin, notably Palisades and Altadena. The fires destroyed some 18000 homes and structures, killed some 31 to 440 people, forced 200 000 to evacuate, and burned over 57000 acres or 23000 hectares. Pacific Palisades was wiped out. Now a bit over a year later, under Climate Talks for Everyone, high school students from Palisades High School together with members of the community will gather at ground zero where their high school once stood to recall those moments. A few of those students will together with a moderator of the FFF Newsletter share their feelings. This event will be transmitted across the country via zoom and livestreamed via facebook and YouTube.
We urge groups across the country, especially high schoolers, to hold watch gatherings to share and discuss what these fires were about and what these students are doing. We also invite numerous groups on short notice to join in livestreaming these moments by signing up here, https://actionnetwork.org/forms/livestreaming-form-for-palisades-high-school/. Lists of those livestreaming links will be circulated to hosts or to those who want information.
Endorsing groups or indivduals can get more information here, https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/134/466/original/make-the-polluters-pay.pdf
Past Events
11/15/25- Community Choice Energy, an Alternative Electricity Model, by Erin Mahan
10/7/25- Local Power to Global Resilience, by Erin Mahan
8/30/25 - State of the World Climate by Stefan Sommer PhD
8/27/25 - Youth at The Heart Of Peace and Climate Justice by Lydia Leonard
8/27/25 - Youth organizing by Jackson Kasangani
8/27/25 - Grass roots organizing, story of self, and Lessons from Marshall Ganz (and Barack Obama) by Rolf vom Dorp
8/27/25 - The Power Of Women In Climate Action And Peace Building, by Linda Charles Mapuda
8/27/25 - Peace and climate justice needs everyone, by Tord Björk
8/27/25 - Racism Fuels the Climate Crises, by Amen Allah Azzoune
8/27/25 - Violent Conflict, Climate Change, Peace and Justice, focus Africa, by Mghase Imanuel
8/27/25 - "From War Machines to Green Futures: Disarmament as Climate Justice", focus Africa. by Akhar Bandyopadhyay
8/27/25 - How Climate Change is Destroying Africa, focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo-by Dr. Jackson Kasangani
8/12/25 - "The new terrain of climate justice, as the African Union meets the G20 in Johannesburg, by Patrick Bond
6/11/25 - What can Economists Possibly have to say about climate Change? by Robert Stavins
5/25/25 - Why Acting on Climate is So Difficult? by Timmons Roberts
3/29/25 - Jo Worthy on the Power Matrix by Jo Worthy
3/9/25 - From Chernobyl to Nuclear Weapons: Connecting Anti-Militarism, Peacebuilding, and Climate Justice in Belarus by Olga Karach
2/23/25 - Snow Fail- the State of the World Climate 2025 by Professor Stefan Sommer
2/1/25 - Teens Fighting To Rescue & Restore Lake Victoria, Africa by Millicent Olal-Muchilwa
11/24/24 - How to Stop Banks from Financing Climate Chaos by Deniz Ozkil
9/2/23 - The Climate Problem by Professor Stefan Sommer
9/9/23 - Building a Path Forward by Professor Stefan Sommer
9/23/23 - Climate Systems by Greg Murray Ph.D.
10/7/23 - What's so great about Electric Vehicles by Bill Manteiga
10/21/23 - Cyclist Unite! by Adam Shimoni
11/4/23 - Convincing the Unconvinced by Rod Parnell, Ph.D.
11/18/23 - Green Burial (Sustainable after-life care) by Lindsey Falkenburg
12/2/23 - Stop the Money Pipeline by Professor Kim Curtis
12/16/23 - Climate Refugees and Arizona's Future by Professor Stefan Sommer
1/1/24 - Hydrogen: The Hope and the Hype by David Spence, M.D.
1/6/24 - Catalyzing Climate Action: Getting from Individual to Collective Action by Katharina Maier
1/20/24 - Cold Weather Heat Pumps (with built-in A/C) by Marco Alatorre
2/3/24 - Climate Justice, Community, and Equity by Dr. Frances Riemer
2/17/24 - Religion and Climate Change by Roy May, Ph.D.
3/2/24 - Gender and Climate Change: How Women are Leading Us to a More Sustainable Future by Dr. Frances Riemer
3/26/24 - In the hottest year, where do we stand? Notes from the climate fight by Bill McKibben
4/6/24 - The Faith Community Helps Protect the Earth by Dr. Tom English
5/25/24 - Water, Climate Change and the Southwest by Darren McCollum
6/27/24 - Climate crisis: the need, obstacles, and potential for a just transition to a post fossil society by Dr. Staffan Laestadius, direct from Sweden
6/28/24 - Wars in a warming world: synergies between climate change mitigation and conflict prevention by Nina von Uexkull, PhD., direct from Germany
6/29/24 - Panel discussion of disarmament for welfare and the environment with East and South by Oleg Bodrov and Soumya Dutta, direct from Russia and India
8/31/24 - Building the Climate Movement by Zachary Brown, PhD
9/14/24 - Urban Cycling: Goals and Lessons for the Future by Adam Shimoni
9/24/24 - Climate is pushing forest fires to unsustainable levels by Dr. Peter Fulé
10/10/24 - End Nuclear Colonialism by Leona Morgan
