{"id":1260,"date":"2004-08-20T17:46:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-20T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T00:46:59","slug":"mike-mayakis-rip-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/mike-mayakis-rip-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mayakis, RIP (III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <I>San Francisco Chronicle<\/I> ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/08\/19\/BAGUL8AD3F1.DTL\">a very nice obituary of Mike Mayakis, longtime libertarian and antiwar activist, and my best friend.<\/a>  Following is the article:<\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"4\">Mike Mayakis &#150; Libertarian activist and agile debater<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>by Charlie Goodyear, Chronicle Staff Writer<br \/>August 19, 2004<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/photos\/perm\/ba_obitmayakis.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"438\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"15\">Mike Mayakis, a prominent Libertarian whose surprising political positions made him a formidable debater, has died. He was 53. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mayakis died at his home in San Francisco on Sunday after a long struggle with leukemia. <\/p>\n<p>A native of Los Angeles, he moved to San Francisco in 1971 and worked for more than a decade at the Haight Ashbury Switchboard as a counselor and trainer for the service that provided information, assistance and counseling to the city&#8217;s growing counterculture. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mayakis was elected to the switchboard&#8217;s Board of Trustees in 1973 and became its president in 1980. <\/p>\n<p>During the 1970s, he worked as an aide to liberal Republican state Sen. Milton Marks of San Francisco and eventually became active in Libertarian politics, founding a chapter of Students for a Libertarian Society at San Francisco State University. <\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Mr. Mayakis was the Libertarian Party&#8217;s candidate for state Senate. He was elected chair of the San Francisco Libertarian Party and held that position three times during the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>He became well known for defying assumptions in political debates. He argued frequently for the rights of smokers when he himself was an asthmatic. <\/p>\n<p>In 1988, he worked for the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee at the Republic Convention in New Orleans. But he was never a Republican, and in 1995 helped found the popular Web site Antiwar.com. <\/p>\n<p>His failing health took its toll on his political activism. But Mr. Mayakis turned his frustrating experiences with the medical system into a guide called &quot;Express Hospital Emergency Room Admission &amp; Survival Kit&quot; to help other patients. <\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Betty Honeycutt; siblings Matthew Mayakis, Martha Mayakis and Sara Tisher, all of Los Angeles; and stepfather Lloyd Daic, also of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>A memorial service is being planned. For details, phone (650) 838-0381. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle ran a very nice obituary of Mike Mayakis, longtime libertarian and antiwar activist, and my best friend. Following is the article: Mike Mayakis &#150; Libertarian activist and agile debater by Charlie Goodyear, Chronicle Staff WriterAugust 19, 2004 Mike Mayakis, a prominent Libertarian whose surprising political positions made him a formidable debater, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}