Frank Bardacke

{{Short description|American political activist, author}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Frank Bardacke

| nationality = American

| occupation = Political activist, labor activist, author

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Frank Bardacke is an American political activist, labor activist, and author.{{Cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Mike |title=Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s |last2=Sprinker |first2=Michael |publisher=Verso |year=1988 |isbn=978-0860919094 |location=London, UK |pages=157–169 |chapter=Watsonville: A Mexican Community on Strike}} He protested the Vietnam War.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/27/cesar-chavez-two-souls-review | newspaper=The Guardian | title=Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke – review | last=Beckett | first=Francis | authorlink = Francis Beckett |date=27 January 2012 | accessdate=9 May 2013}}{{Cite book |last=Freeman |first=Jo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pOZZUkj2ZoC |title=At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-21622-9 |pages=294 |language=en}}

Bardacke was featured in the film Berkeley in the Sixties and according to the film he: "Left Berkeley in 1970, and spent the next decade working in the fields and canneries near Salinas, California. He is still a leftist, active in labor and community politics." He had founded a Teamsters for a Democratic Union branch in Watsonville.{{Cite book |last1=Carlsson |first1=Chris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gECxkEnoJQwC |title=Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology |last2=Leger |first2=Mark |date=1990-07-17 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-0-86091-946-9 |location=London, UK |pages=134 |language=en}}

In 2011, he published Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers ({{ISBN|9781844677184}}).{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668194738|title=Catalog record for "Trampling Out the Vintage"|publisher=Worldcat|oclc=668194738|accessdate=9 May 2013}}