Biden's summit of the Americas last week was a total failure, with several countries boycotting the

event that his office described as a way to forward his own agenda. In contrast, the counter-summit

that was held simultaneously, the People's Summit for Democracy, was a huge success, bringing together

from all over the Americas, leaders, organizers, union members, journalists,

and people of all stripes in Los Angeles last week to discuss the real issues facing our continent.

The Socialist Program was at the People's Summit and recorded individual interviews with prominent authors,

researchers, and organizers. Today, we'd like to share one of those interviews with you.

Brian spoke with Roberto Levato,

the author of Unforgetting, a groundbreaking memoir the New York Times picked as an editor's choice.

Newsweek listed Lovato's memoir as a must-read, and the L.A. Times listed it as one of its

20 best books of 2020. Lovato is also a journalist and a visiting professor of English at the University of Nevada,

Las Vegas. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous

issues, violence, terrorism, the drug war, and the refugee crisis from Mexico, Venezuela, El

Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, France, in the United States, among other countries.

Here's Brian's interview with Roberto Lovato.

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded

impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable but an imperative necessity. Welcome back to the Socialist Program.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

We're here at the Los Angeles People's Summit for Democracy.

We're going to be talking with journalist, educator, author Roberto Levato.

He is the author of the book, Unforgetting. Roberto,

welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad to be with you and glad to be here at the summit.

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