Garrick Ruiz
Garrick Ruiz has been an organizer and activist in Los Angeles for nearly a decade. In the summers of 2002 and 2003 he spent nearly five months in occupied Palestine working with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
This time was spent both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where he was also the ISM Freedom Summer Campaign Coordinator for the summer of 2003. While there he accompanied ambulances, engaged in monitoring Israeli military checkpoints, stayed in homes threatened with destruction, documented human rights abuses by the Israeli Occupation Forces, accompanied Palestinians as they removed roadblocks and many other activities. Garrick has been active in the California youth movement, the anti-corporate globalization movement and many local struggles for justice in Los Angeles. He also spent nearly two months in East Timor in 1999 as a U.N. accredited election observer for the referendum on independence. The Wheels of Justice welcomes his return to the tour.