Amber Kanazbah Crotty, a Navajo Nation Council Delegate, recalls how just a few years ago, law enforcement agencies didn t want to talk about the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. Up to about 2018, we still had law enforcement telling us this was not an issue, that it s not a prevalent issue, she said.
In 2018, she testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during a hearing called “Missing and Murdered: Confronting the Silent Crisis in Indian country.”
“I remember being there and watching our FBI partners walk out of the room before we gave our testimony,” Crotty said. “That sticks with me as an advocate, as a mom, as a council delegate, in terms of how we need to protect one another.”
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 23rd of April in recent years..the 15 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 9 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but measured well below the average addition of 67 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 66 billion cubic feet added to natur
Sen. Doug Jones
Sen. Doug Jones is a distinguished senior fellow with American Progress, focusing his work on issues of racial justice and equality, voting rights, and law enforcement reform.
A celebrated prosecutor who brought long-overdue justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Sen. Jones has built his career on fighting impossible battles. In 2017, he shocked the political establishment by winning a special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama the first Democrat to do so in 25 years in the state. On Capitol Hill, he quickly built a reputation as a well-regarded and effective legislator, passing more than two dozen bipartisan bills into law in just three years. He also established the annual tradition of a bipartisan reading of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in the Senate chamber and has been an outspoken Southern voice in support of racial justice and equity.
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Apprehension is among those images whose intensity remains constant no matter where it is seen. Its central feature is the magnified face of a young Asian man who grasps a telephone receiver as he might a cudgel. Deep furrows are etched into his forehead, and a lock of hair falls across his face. Two errant hairs extending beyond his eye read like fracture lines portending some future dissolution or rupture. Illuminated from an unseen source below, the man’s face is a terrain of shadow and light. His flesh becomes a histrionic play of rose and gold that recalls both the lurid eroticism of midcentury pulp illustration and the imbrication of Baroque religious painting with secular drama.