'Evil economics': William Barber condemns proposed plastics facility in Cancer Alley

Activist joined demonstrators in St James parish as they rallied against facility that would double the amount of toxic emissions

For the second time in two months the moral revival campaigner and civil rights leader the Rev William Barber has visited an area of toxic pollution in Louisiana known colloquially as "Cancer Alley" as he places the fight for clean air there at the centre of a national protest movement.

The North Carolina-based activist, thrust on to the national stage after the success of the Moral Mondays protests in his home state, joined a group of local demonstrators in St James parish, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, on Wednesday as they rallied against a proposed plastics manufacturing facility nearby.