Dear friends,
Dan Kovalik is available for more speaking engagements around the country. At present he will in New York the end of June, Arizona in mid-July and the Bay Area in mid-August. The cost to invite him is the transportation from the previous city, typically less than $75 or $100.
His focus will be on US intervention in Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Cuba. It may also include US interference in other countries, such as Iran and Russia. He has a long history of writing on and working to combat US intervention in these countries.
If you would like to invite Dan Kovalik to speak, please email Stansfieldsmith100@gmail.com, 773-322-3168
Religious peace activist organizations, anti-war coalitions, Latin America solidarity movement, the union movement, and universities may all be equally interested in inviting him.
Daniel Kovalik currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He also served for over 25 years as Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He began working for the USW after graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia.
The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists subject to death threats, described Dan Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects.
Books Dan Kovalik has written:
The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin
The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World
The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil
A sampling of his talks and interviews are here on youtube.
Some of his articles:
The real Venezuela is not what you think
A selection of his articles in Counterpunch:
Homage to Nicaragua
Dan Kovalik’s “The Plot to Attack Iran:” a Tool to Combat …
Pompeo’s Speech Against Iran Reveals Failure of US Foreign Policy
The Empire Turns Its Sights on Nicaragua – Again!
The Korean Conflict, Reevaluated
Tribute to Fidel Castro on His 90th Birthday
Colombia: Peace in the Shadow of Genocide
Scapegoating Russia
Seven Truths Inconvenient to U.S. Foreign Policy
NPR, Yemen & the Downplaying of U.S. War Crimes
Destroying Libya’s Welfare State
The True Nature of US Interventions
The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Hotel Rwanda Revisited: Interview with Paul Rusesabagina
Duterte’s Death Squads, and Ours
If you would like to invite Dan Kovalik to speak, please email Stansfieldsmith100@gmail.com, 773-322-3168
In Solidarity,
Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity
Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice
Teri Mattson, End the Venezuela Sanctions Campaign
Chicago ALBA Solidarity 
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