- When you over in Samoa, what...what surprised you the most? - I what hit me the most is the condition of the factory that the workers were 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 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 - 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 call it slave But they don't prosecute them 'cause it's how they make When you rocking that fly shit that's made in By an eight old child tryna feed his mama He exposed to and disease And only fifty-five percent of them will get And the women have to try to the boss Because it's sex discrimination in the labour The slave master only let them speak in sign And they're suffering from lung disease and eye fourteen hour shifts, seven days a two shitty meals a day, very little life only worth three cents an hour All human right laws loose sense of What did hundred years in the grave passes? Only the improved cleverness of masters.
Is life worth living if you living in the mind is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I expect the to fail! Is worth living if you living in hell? When the mind is confined to a cell? And the they devise in the system that fail But I expect the to fail!
- Chinese 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 labour force trapped in hell They generate over a billion dollars to power And only paid twenty cents an hour They cloths for McDonald's and for Apple Bee's And working fourteen hour shifts in prison And we sit around debating who the wack emcee is They to work when arthritic pain attack the knees Slavery is not illegal, a fucking lie! It is illegal, it's for conviction of a crime The main objective is to get you in your prime. And keep the prison and not give you a fucking dime But the real criminal 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 rights inspectors
Is worth living if you living in hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoner's And the lies they devise in the that fail But I the system to fail! Is life living if you living in hell? When the is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the system fail But I expect the to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and 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 told them I was pregnant, told me to have an abortion.. - Tu Xiao Mei says she refused to have the abortion and has now been barred 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 pregnant into having abortions. - But human rights workers say it's practice - Inside that factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is... is - Even though it's the United States of - The flag fly inside there.