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' ae s WELTAGED BYs, Oy FOR Bi&cDI*t7 RELEASE ers Southern Studer. _) kenicing Committec ae : : Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 4, 1967 Gene Guerrero, fourding chairman of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, will refuse induction into the dazy teday at tho U.S. Anncd Forces induction cen~ ' ter et 665 Tonce Ds Loon dvenues Guerrero has ezplied for and been dericd @ con seientious ehjector classification. £1955 grctauate of Emory University, he was active in the non-violent sit-in mevement in 1963 end 1954 which eventu:l2y led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Guerrero was instrumental in forming the Southern Student Crgenising Comnittee, a Southiide student organization mili- tantly pro-civil rights ard anti-Vietnon war. Guerrero says in a statement to be released at the induction center, "I believe that a person Should attempt to match his actions with his beliefs. Because of my beliefs, I must refuse induction today. I believe that war is wrong ard I cannot participate in war. I believe that the war in Vietnam is immoral, illegal, and contrary to the interests of the American people. Even if I were not a com scientious objector, I would hope thet I would be able to refuse inéuction to— day because of the immorality of the war in Vietnam." A coalition of Atlanta pacifist and anti-war groups are protesting Guerrero's induction as part of a nationwide "stop the draft" week. dmong the sponsors of the demonstration are the following groups: the Southern Student Organizing Com- mittee, Atlanta Veterans for Peace, Atlanta Workshop in Nonviolence, Atlanta Young Socialist Alliance, Atlantans for Peace, American Friends Service Comnittee, Emory Comunity Peace Union, Georgia State Committee on Social Issues. Tom Gardner, chairman of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, headquartered in Nashville, said, ‘We can mo longer allow the politicians in Washington to draft young Southern men to fight in their idiotic, immoral, and inperialistic wars. Gene Guerrero has demonstrated his willingness to risk his life for freedch