George and Amal Clooney Give $500,000 to Parkland Survivors’ March for Our Lives
High school survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left at least 17 dead are not waiting to push for gun reform, even while mourning their slain peers; George and Amal Clooney showed their support for March for Our Lives (led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students) by pledging to give $500,000 toward the event, a planned demonstration in Washington, D.C., on March 24. Both Clooneys will also participate in the march.
In a statement on Tuesday, George Clooney said, “Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women 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 to help pay for this groundbreaking event. Our children’s lives depend on it.”
The March for Our Lives is organized by Stoneman Douglas students Cameron Kasky, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Alex Wind, and Jaclyn Corin, in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety. “I'm just a high school student,” Kasky wrote in a recent op-ed, “and I do not pretend to have all of the answers. However, even in my position, I can see that there is desperate need for change—change that starts by folks showing up to the polls and voting all those individuals who are in the back pockets of gun lobbyists out of office.”
