Mavi Marmara Survivor Ken O'Keefe's Speaking Tour Heads North (PHOTOS)

Our crew is also shooting footage for a documentary titled 'Panamera' that will counter the BBC's recent 'Panorama' episode Death in the Med.

Various images of Ken O'Keefe's trip to the Northwest by Bonnie and Tim King Salem-News.com

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com is publishing from the road in recent days, as we accompany Writers Ken O'Keefe and Eileen Fleming on a Northwest speaking tour.

Ken O'Keefe of AlohaPalestine.com, is sharing background information about his life, interesting facts about the night his ship was the subject of a deadly attack by Israeli commandos, and also discussing what it will take to change Israel's apartheid policy toward the Palestinian people.

He is accompanied by fellow Salem-News.com writer Eileen Fleming of WeAreWideAwake.org. After successful engagements in Oregon, they will next visit locations in Spokane, Seattle, Olympia and Victoria BC.

Ken O'Keefe has been an anti-war activist since his service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the first Gulf War in 1991, gained fame a little over a decade later, as part of a human shield designed to protect Iraqi citizens from the U.S. invasion.

Last May this former Marine was aboard the Turkish flagged Mavi Marmara, a passenger ship participating in the Freedom Flotilla to break the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip; a contested zone of land that is home to a million and a half people who live with the constant threat of annihilation from Israel.

Nine of those aboard the ship were killed by Israeli commandos as they attacked the Mavi Marmara with live rounds at 3:40 a.m. This was prayer time for many people aboard the ship.

So far Ken has spoken to receptive crowds in Eugene, Corvallis and Newport, Oregon. Making this tour twice as special is the inclusion of Ken's mom, Pat Johnson, who had not seen her son in person since the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in May.

Our crew is also shooting footage for a documentary titled 'Panamera' that will counter the BBC's recent 'Panorama' episode Death in the Med. O'Keefe and all others who know the hard facts in the story are keenly aware of the BBC and reporter Jane Corbin's extremely non-factual portrayal of the story. The BBC could not have been more of a propaganda piece than it was.

Eileen Fleming has been sharing the word about her new book, and entertaining crowds with her take on Israel/Palestine which she has visited seven times. She is the only westerner to have interviewed Israeli Nuclear Program Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on several occasions.

For inquiries about Ken's tour and dates, write to: newsroom@salem-news.com

Tim King: Salem-News.com Editor and Writer

Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines.

Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Tim has several years of experience in network affiliate news TV stations, having worked as a reporter and photographer at NBC, ABC and FOX stations in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. As News Editor, Tim among other things, is responsible for publishing the original content of 65 Salem-News.com writers. He reminds viewers that emails are easily missed and urges those trying to reach him, to please send a second email if the first goes unanswered. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com