- When you in American 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 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 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 contemporary of slavery, they call it slave labour But they don't prosecute them it's how they make paper you rocking that fly shit that's made in China By an eight year old child feed his mama He to contamination and disease And only fifty-five percent of them will get And the have to try to placate the boss Because it's sex in the labour force The master only let them speak in sign language And they're suffering lung disease and eye damage hour shifts, seven days a week two shitty meals a day, little sleep life only worth three cents an hour All right laws loose sense of power did four hundred years in the grave passes? Only the improved cleverness of masters.
Is life worth if you living in hell? When the is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the that fail But I expect the to fail! Is worth living if you living in hell? the mind is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the system that But I the system 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 point six people locked in jail They do new slave labour force trapped in They generate over a dollars worth to power And only getting paid twenty cents an They make cloths for McDonald's and for 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 main is to get you in your fucking prime. And keep the prison and not give you a fucking dime But they the criminal keeping you confined For a crime but they give you two-to-nine And ain't nobody to protect ya Except a of incompetent human rights inspectors
Is life worth living if you in hell? When the mind is confined to a cell? And the lies they devise in the system that But I the system to fail! Is life worth living if you 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!
- The situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take advantage on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage. - This Chinese woman made T-shirts and pants at the factory 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 barred from entering the factory. - To allow them to bring that on to US soil is a very deep concern. now documented the facts 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 - Even it's the United States of America? - The doesn't fly inside there.