Film star and producer George Clooney and his wife, human-rights attorney Amal Alamuddin Clooney, are donating $500,000 to help survivors of the Feb. 14 Florida high-school shooting massacre make their announced march on Washington to demand gun-safety regulation. The couple also said they will attend the protest.
"Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School," Clooney, 56, said in a statement Tuesday. "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."
Oprah Winfrey also said she would match George and Amal Clooney's $500,000 donation to the Florida students, The Associated Press reported. The media mogul tweeted from her verified account Tuesday night that the student organizers remind her of civil rights activists in the 1960s "who also said we've had ENOUGH and our voices will be heard."
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