- When you in American Samoa, what...what surprised you the most? - I guess what hit me the most is the condition of the factory 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 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 reaches way over a degrees.
1]: It's the form of slavery, they call it slave labour But they prosecute them 'cause it's how they make paper When you rocking that fly shit that's made in By an eight year old child feed his mama He exposed to and disease And only fifty-five percent of them get degrees And the women have to try to placate the Because sex discrimination in the labour force The slave master only let speak in sign language And they're suffering from lung and eye damage fourteen hour shifts, days a week two shitty meals a day, very sleep Human only worth three cents an hour All human right laws loose sense of What did four years in the grave passes? Only the improved cleverness of masters.
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! 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 expect the to fail!
- Many Chinese workers are forced to 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 six million people locked in jail They do new slave force trapped in hell They generate over a dollars worth to power And only paid twenty cents an hour They make cloths for McDonald's and for Apple And working fourteen hour in prison factories And while we sit around debating who the wack is They to work when arthritic pain attack the knees is not illegal, that's a fucking lie! It is illegal, unless for conviction of a crime The main objective is to get you in your prime. And the prison full and not give you a fucking dime But the real criminal keeping you confined For a petty crime but they you two-to-nine And ain't there to protect ya Except a bunch of incompetent human inspectors
Is life worth if you living in hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoner's 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 is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the they devise in the system that fail But I expect the to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage. - This woman made T-shirts and pants at the factory until she became pregnant. - When I told them I was pregnant, they told me to 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 that management coerces female workers who become pregnant into having abortions. - But rights workers say it's common practice - Inside factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - though it's the United States of America? - The flag doesn't fly there.