Free Zilker Blog
East Austin Parks Activists and Free Zilker Defend Festival Beach Master Plan
Members of Deep Holly Advocates and East Austin stakeholders reached out to Free Zilker a few months ago asking for support. We felt we had to assist them because their cause mirrors our own: to stop moneyed interests that undermine the public trust to carve up Austin...
Austin City Council and Mayor Races 2024—A Hail Mary for Austin
The Free Zilker Coalition (FZ) may endorse and fundraise for some candidates, but we just wanted to get people thinking about the stakes and our future. Environmentalists, parks activists and anti-gentrification activists are generally getting our asses kicked at...
East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association Spring Town Hall Meeting
East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association Spring Town Hall Meeting When:Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6PM Where:Rudy Mendez Rec Center (Formerly Metz Rec Center) 2407 Canterbury St, Austin, TX 78702 What: Come with your questions and concerns about all these...
Women Swimmers are Unhappy with Plans for Bathhouse Renovation
Despite protests and letters sent to City Council, these renovations have begun.
The Hijacked Park at Festival Beach
Introduction by the Free Zilker Coalition Members of the Deep Holly Advocates and the East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association recently reached out to us to ask for help. We felt we had to assist them because their cause mirrors our own: to stop moneyed...
Save Flo, the Leaning Tree
PARD Director Kimberly McNeely announces a temporary reprieve for the leaning tree, "Flo." We are happy to repost here the Action Alert sent out this week by the SOS Alliance resulted in a call coming tonight, Monday, from PARD Director Kimberly McNeely to SOS's Bill...
The Parks Board Regroups
Elizabeth Pagano of The Austin Monitor reports that the Parks board is to take an (ever-so-brief) pause on Zilker Park plan. Photo by Photo by Trey Perry made available through a Creative Commons license.
The Blessing of the Commons and the Prosperity Gospel of Public Private Partnerships
C3 opened the back gate for LiveNation/Ticketmaster. They joined forces with Moody, and the patrician class from NY and CA that have been steadily filing in—not to mention those born here and Dallas and Houston. Not to say everyone from those places wants to pump...
Teri Adams at the Carousel Lounge
Free Zilker coordinating chair Teri Adams addresses the crowd at the Carousel Lounge on July 8th.
Mayor Kirk Watson on the Zilker Vision Plan
Liz and I moved to Austin 42 years ago, and people constantly told us, “You’ll never want to leave”. It was so frequent that we laughed about it — until, of course, we decided we never wanted to leave. That took all of about 3 months. Zilker Park was one of the places...