- When you over in Samoa, what...what surprised you the most? - I guess what hit me the most is the condition of the that the workers were in: The factory was by a fence and barbed wire on top and on the bottom. And they have a chain-linked fence surround the whole factory 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 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 reaches way over a hundred degrees.
1]: It's the form of slavery, they call it slave labour But they don't prosecute 'cause it's how they make paper When you rocking fly shit that's made in China By an eight year old child tryna feed his He exposed to contamination and And only fifty-five percent of them get degrees And the women to try to placate the boss Because sex discrimination in the labour force The slave only let them speak in sign language And they're suffering from disease and eye damage fourteen shifts, seven days a week two shitty meals a day, little sleep life only worth three cents an hour All human right laws loose of power What did four years in the grave passes? Only the cleverness of slave masters.
Is life worth if you living in hell? When the mind is confined to a cell? And the lies they devise in the system that But I expect the to fail! Is life worth living if you living in When the mind is confined to a cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I expect the to fail!
- Many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements, known as shadow contracts, before they leave China, severely and, in some ways, illegally 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 people locked in do new slave labour force trapped in hell They generate over a dollars worth to power And getting paid twenty cents an hour They make cloths for and for Apple Bee's And working fourteen hour shifts in prison And we sit around debating who the wack emcee is They have to work when arthritic attack the knees Slavery is not illegal, a fucking lie! It is illegal, it's for conviction of a crime The main is to get you in your fucking prime. And keep the prison full and not you a fucking dime But they the real keeping you confined For a petty but they give you two-to-nine And ain't nobody there to ya Except a bunch of incompetent human rights
Is life living if you living in hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoner's And the they devise in the system that fail But I the system to fail! Is life worth living if you living in When the mind is confined to a prisoner's And the lies they devise in the system that But I the system to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take advantage on the people that are poor and at an disadvantage. - This Chinese woman made T-shirts and pants at the factory until she pregnant. - When I them I was pregnant, they told me to have an abortion.. - Tu Xiao Mei says she refused to have the abortion and has now been from entering the factory. - To allow them to bring that on to US soil is a very deep concern. We've now documented the facts that management coerces female workers who become into having abortions. - But rights workers say it's common practice - Inside that factory law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - Even though it's the United of America? - The flag fly inside there.