- When you over in American Samoa, what...what you the most? - I guess what hit me the most is the condition of the factory that the workers in: The factory was surrounded by a fence and barbed wire on top and on the bottom. And they have a chain-linked fence surround the whole and, and dormitory compound. The gate has a...has a guard shack, where the guard sit there and control the worker movement in and out of the.. of the factory - The factory are made of ahm.. tin panels with tin roof. It's really hot. The temperature over there is verily ninety degrees and inside the factory or the dormitory it way over a hundred degrees.
1]: It's the contemporary form of slavery, they it slave labour But they don't prosecute them 'cause how they make paper you rocking that fly shit that's made in China By an eight year old child tryna feed his He to contamination and disease And only fifty-five percent of them get degrees And the women have to try to the boss Because sex discrimination in the labour force The master only let them speak in sign language And they're from lung disease and eye damage fourteen shifts, seven days a week two shitty meals a day, very little Human life only worth three an hour All human right laws loose sense of did four hundred years in the grave passes? Only the improved cleverness of masters.
Is life worth living if you in hell? When the mind is to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the system that But I the system to fail! Is life worth living if you in hell? the mind is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the that fail But I the system to fail!
- Many workers are forced to sign secret agreements, known as shadow contracts, before they leave China, severely and, in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on American soil. Workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political activity or to ask for a salary increase or even to fall in love or get married.
2]: It's one point six million locked in jail They do new slave labour force trapped in They generate over a billion worth to power And getting paid twenty cents an hour They make cloths for and for Apple Bee's And working hour shifts in prison factories And we sit around debating who the wack emcee is They have to work when arthritic attack the knees Slavery is not illegal, that's a lie! It is illegal, it's for conviction of a crime The objective is to get you in your fucking prime. And keep the full and not give you a fucking dime But they the real keeping you confined For a petty crime but they give you And ain't there to protect ya Except a bunch of incompetent human inspectors
Is worth living if you living in hell? When the mind is to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I expect the to fail! Is life worth if you living in hell? the mind is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the system fail But I the system to fail!
- The situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take advantage on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage. - This Chinese made T-shirts and pants at the factory until she became pregnant. - When I them I was pregnant, they told me to have an abortion.. - Tu Xiao Mei says she to have the abortion and has now been barred from entering the factory. - To allow them to bring that on to US soil is a very concern. We've now documented the facts that management coerces female workers who become pregnant into having abortions. - But human rights workers say common practice - Inside that factory law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - though it's the United States of America? - The flag fly inside there.