Mayer Vishner

Mayer Vishner was an antiwar activist, editor and cultural critic. Mayer was a Yippie activist and an associate of Abbie Hoffman. He was a friend of the singer Phil Ochs, of Tom Forcade, founder of High Times magazine, and of Ed Saunders, a Yippie co-founder and member of The Fugs. In 1971, Mayer edited "When the Mode of the Music Changes: An Anthology of Rock 'n' Roll Lyrics." Long associated with the War Resisters League, Mayer wrote for their magazine, Win. Mayer edited the L.A. Weekly, a counterculture paper in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. He returned to New York at the end of the decade, and became an assistant manager of St. Mark's Bookshop. He died Aug. 22 at the age of 64 in the MacDougal St. apartment where he made his home for more than 30 years.