Title: Queens Neighborhoods United Instagram

URL: https://www.instagram.com/queensneighborhoodsunited/

Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: NYC COVID-19 Web Activism

Description: Queens Neighborhood United (QNU) is a volunteer, activist working group representing the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst. Founded in 2014 by small business owners as an anti-business improvement district organization, QNU "believes in establishing community control over land-use, policing, and immigration policies that directly impact and works to displace us." It accomplishes its work through use of grassroots organizing, direct action, leadership development, advocacy, and community education. Beginning on April 1, 2020, QNU uses its Instagram account to communicate directly to its members and allies around campaigns to support its community during COVID-19. The feed includes still and moving image and calls for support for Elmhurst Hospital, emergency response funds for laundry workers, announcements for know your rights trainings, and actions to support houseless community members. The un-archived Instagram feed includes video of an NYPD arrest of a houseless immigrant man which has not been included in this web archive in accordance with this collection's development policy and in order to preserve that individual's privacy

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