![]() ![]() Reproductive justice is centered on the rights to bodily autonomy and self-determination, and to parent and not to parent in safe and healthy environments. In 1994, Black feminists came together as the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice, in reaction to the white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism they observed shaping reproductive politics and inherent in the broader population control narratives. Yet, 26 years later, women and girls’ human rights and bodily autonomy continue to be routinely violated, including through the denial, criminalization and stigmatization of access to safe and legal abortion - all of which is rooted in the discrimination, oppression, violence and coercion affecting the material conditions that shape people’s lives and ability to exercise their bodily autonomy and human rights. In the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, States explicitly agreed to prioritize the realization of women’s human rights and recognized that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. I deliver this statement on behalf of 353 organizations and 534 individuals. ![]() This is one of the great lost treasures of the jazz-rock era the music is a bit looser than that of the Hancock records yet every bit as invigorating and forward-thrusting.Please note that a shorter version of this statement was delivered orally on 23 September 2019 to fit the time requirements of the Human Rights Council. The drumming (from White and Billy Hart) is brilliantly propulsive Hancock logs a lot of solo time and gets to play with his Echoplex, while Patrick Gleeson slips in mind-blowing streaks and whooshes of sound from his Moog and ARP synthesizers. There are five compositions here, most of them by Henderson, with a contribution from Hancock (the subtly beautiful "Revelation") and the delicately textured "Anua" from Bennie Maupin. ![]() Henderson extends and develops the Hancock approach, sputtering and moving laconically about in a manner greatly affected by Miles Davis but more ebullient in tone. Henderson's band is, in fact, the Hancock Septet minus Julian Priester with a second drummer ( Lenny White) added, and they play the same brand of fantastic, electronically charged, intergalactic jazz-rock. and Columbia, you can expand it considerably by adding the two LPs that Eddie Henderson made as a leader on Capricorn - a Georgia rock label known mostly for recording the Allman Brothers. Although the electric Herbie Hancock Sextet (and septet) left only a slim three-album discography on Warner Bros. ![]()
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