Frank Bardacke

American political activist, author

Frank Bardacke
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Political activist, labor activist, author

Frank Bardacke is an American political activist, labor activist, and author.^[1] He protested the Vietnam War.^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]

In 2011, he published Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers (ISBN 9781844677184).^[5]

References

^ Davis, Mike; Sprinker, Michael (1988). "Watsonville: A Mexican Community on Strike". Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s. London, UK: Verso. pp. 157–169. ISBN 978-0860919094.
^ Beckett, Francis (27 January 2012). "Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
^ Freeman, Jo (2004). At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965. Indiana University Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-253-21622-9.
^ Carlsson, Chris; Leger, Mark (1990-07-17). Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology. London, UK: Verso. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-86091-946-9.
^ Catalog record for "Trampling Out the Vintage". Worldcat. OCLC 668194738. Retrieved 9 May 2013.