George and Amal Clooney Pledge $500k to Gun-Violence Protest

George and Amal Clooney have pledged $500,000 to “March for Our Lives,” an anti-gun protest led by five students who survived last week’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Students are planning to “take to the streets of Washington, D.C., to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today.” In a statement, George Clooney said that he and Amal are so inspired by the “courage and eloquence” of the students from Stoneman Douglas High School. “Our family will be there on March 24 to stand side by side with this incredible generation of young people from all over the country, and in the name of our children Ella and Alexander, we’re donating 500,000 dollars to help pay for this groundbreaking event. Our children’s lives depend on it.” One of the Florida students, Alex Wind, said that this is the first march, but it will not be the last.

“We will be marching for the 17 we lost at our school. We will be marching for everyone we lost at the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, at Columbine, at Virginia Tech in San Bernardino, Orlando at the Pulse shooting and at Las Vegas. This is only the beginning,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.