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| Cancer town: civil rights leader William Barber takes on pollution at Guardian town hall | |
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| The US civil rights leader and moral revival campaigner the Rev William Barber has brought his national movement to Louisiana for a series of events on corporate air pollution tied to the Guardian’s year-long series Cancer Town. | The US civil rights leader and moral revival campaigner the Rev William Barber has brought his national movement to Louisiana for a series of events on corporate air pollution tied to the Guardian’s year-long series Cancer Town. |
| Barber is appearing at a Guardian-curated town hall event in New Orleans on Friday and will visit Reserve on Saturday morning. | Barber is appearing at a Guardian-curated town hall event in New Orleans on Friday and will visit Reserve on Saturday morning. |
| 'Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer' | 'Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer' |
| Residents of the small town face the highest risk of cancer due to airborne toxicity, according to US government science. The pollution is tied to a chemical plant – the only place in America to produce the synthetic rubber neoprene – that emits the compound chloroprene listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as a likely carcinogen. The plant is owned by the Japanese chemical company Denka, which purchased it from DuPont in 2015. | Residents of the small town face the highest risk of cancer due to airborne toxicity, according to US government science. The pollution is tied to a chemical plant – the only place in America to produce the synthetic rubber neoprene – that emits the compound chloroprene listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as a likely carcinogen. The plant is owned by the Japanese chemical company Denka, which purchased it from DuPont in 2015. |
| Barber, the leader of the Poor People’s Campaign movement and one of the high-profile voices in the Moral Mondays movement, described conditions in Reserve as “tragic … immoral … evil” in an article for the Guardian published earlier this month. | Barber, the leader of the Poor People’s Campaign movement and one of the high-profile voices in the Moral Mondays movement, described conditions in Reserve as “tragic … immoral … evil” in an article for the Guardian published earlier this month. |
| You can watch a live stream of events here: | You can watch a live stream of events here: |
| The town hall in New Orleans, at the First Presbyterian church, will feature a roundtable discussion with Robert Taylor, president of the Concerned Citizens of St John; Wilma Subra, a chemist and technical adviser with Louisiana Environmental Action Network; Sharon Lavigne, director of Rise St James; Ruhan Nagra, executive director of the University Network for Human Rights; Larry Sorapuru, councilman-at-large for Saint John Parish; and the Rev Barber. | The town hall in New Orleans, at the First Presbyterian church, will feature a roundtable discussion with Robert Taylor, president of the Concerned Citizens of St John; Wilma Subra, a chemist and technical adviser with Louisiana Environmental Action Network; Sharon Lavigne, director of Rise St James; Ruhan Nagra, executive director of the University Network for Human Rights; Larry Sorapuru, councilman-at-large for Saint John Parish; and the Rev Barber. |
| Barber will travel to Saint John Parish on Saturday morning to visit residents of Reserve and observe the Denka plant up close. | Barber will travel to Saint John Parish on Saturday morning to visit residents of Reserve and observe the Denka plant up close. |
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