***Note to adjust for your local time to watch on zoom. The date for this event is Saturday, January 24, 2026.The time is 11 am Pacific Coast Time, 2 pm East Coast Time, 8 pm Central European Time, or 10 pm East Africa Time.***

Please join the presentation by students Uniting to Fight Climate Change. High school students from Pacific Palisades and neighboring Santa Monica displaced by the 2025 Pacific Palisades fire will join in a livestream. They lost their homes or school in the inferno. This global zoom livestream on the one-year anniversary of LA’s fires will feature their personal recollections and their next steps. Fridays for the Future and its Newsletter, NAZCCA.org, Resilient Palisades, Climate Action Santa Monica, Third Act, and many others are sponsors. Please register on the right to join the zoom presentation.

In January 2025, wildfires 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 close to wiped out. Now a bit over a year later, under Climate Talks for Everyone, students together with members of the community will gather at ground zero where parts of their high school once stood.

We urge groups across the country, especially high schoolers, to view and hold watch gatherings. You can use this zoom link to watch, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82842557004, or be reminded by signing up on the right. You can use this link for watch gatherings, 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. Share what these fires were about and what these students are doing.

The devastation and hurt were deep.

All photos, Steve Engelmann, high school teacher at Palisades High School. Above right, Maria, Palisades high school student.

Additional information is available here:

• Sign, spread or compose a petition like Make Polluters Pay, https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-polluters-pay-3/
• Watch this video "This is What", created by the PALI high school victims, https://www.fridaysforfuturenewsletter.org/post/youth-united-will-not-be-defeated.
• Visit Climate Talks for Everyone for links of prior or coming talks.
• Donate here https://www.nazcca.org/donate to this 501C3 cosponsor committed to share funds with all participating major climate groups.
• Click and print on preferably light green paper the flyer. Spread everywhere, especially high schools, everywhere, https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/135/670/original/palisades-panel-discussion-flyer-1-24-26docx-2.pdf
• Spread the qr code for this page and event,

Presented and distributed under the cooperation of many groups of the Southwest US and elsewhere: