- 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 were in: The 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 factory - The factory are made of ahm.. tin panels with tin roof. It's really hot. The temperature over there is verily degrees and inside the factory or the dormitory it reaches way over a hundred degrees.
1]: It's the contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave But don't prosecute them '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 to contamination and disease And only percent of them will get degrees And the have to try to placate the boss Because it's sex discrimination in the labour The slave master only let them speak in sign And suffering from lung disease and eye damage fourteen shifts, seven days a week two meals a day, very little sleep Human life only worth three cents an All right laws loose sense of power What did hundred years in the grave passes? Only the improved cleverness of masters.
Is worth living if you living in hell? When the mind is to a prisoner's cell? And the they devise in the system that fail But I expect the to fail! Is life worth if you living in hell? When the is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the they devise 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 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 labour force in hell They over a billion 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 factories And while we sit around debating who the emcee is They have to work when arthritic pain attack the Slavery is not illegal, a fucking lie! It is illegal, unless it's for conviction of a The main objective is to get you in fucking prime. And keep the full and not give you a fucking dime But they the real criminal keeping you For a petty crime but they you two-to-nine And nobody there to protect ya a bunch of incompetent human rights inspectors
Is life worth living if you living in When the mind is confined to a cell? And the lies they devise in the system fail But I the system to fail! Is worth living if you living in hell? When the mind is to a prisoner's cell? And the lies devise in the system that fail But I the system to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage. - Chinese woman 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 Mei says she refused 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 say it's common practice - Inside factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - Even though it's the States of America? - The flag fly inside there.