From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Our house is going to ruin, and that harms everyone, especially the poorest.

Mine is therefore an appeal for responsibility, based on the task that God has given to man

in creation, till and keep the garden, in which he was placed.

I invite everyone to accept with open hearts this document,

which follows the church's social doctrine.

As preparations begin for Pope Francis's Saturday funeral,

we mark this Earth Day by looking at the Pope's climate legacy

and his landmark 2015 encyclical that called for the world to make sweeping changes

to protect what he called our common home. Then to the lawyer of Ramesa Ozturk, the Tufts

doctoral student recently abducted by masked federal agents.

A judge has ordered her to be transferred from an immigration jail in Louisiana to Vermont.

Then 40, 70 years ago this week, the historic 1955 anti-colonial Bandung Conference was held in Indonesia. We'll speak to Vijay Prashad.

70 years ago, 29 new countries from India all the way out to Egypt, from Africa and Asia,

came to Bandung, Indonesia to demand that a new world be built.

I mean, what a glorious challenge to come and say,

let's build a new world.

You can't say they didn't try.

They tried really, really hard.

The fact that they didn't fully succeed has to do with neocolonialism, not with their

ambitions.

Their ambitions alive and well today.

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