- 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 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 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 'cause it's how they make paper When you rocking that fly that's made in China By an eight old child tryna feed his mama He to contamination and disease And only percent of them will get degrees And the women have to try to placate the Because sex discrimination in the labour force The slave master only let them in sign language And they're suffering lung disease and eye damage hour shifts, seven days a week two shitty a day, very little sleep Human life worth three cents an hour All human laws loose sense of power What did four hundred years in the grave Only the cleverness of slave masters.
Is worth living 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 worth living if you living in hell? When the is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I the system 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 people locked in jail do new slave labour force trapped in hell They generate over a billion dollars to power And only getting paid twenty cents an They cloths for McDonald's and for Apple Bee's And working fourteen shifts in prison factories And while we sit around who the wack emcee is They have to work when arthritic pain attack the Slavery is not illegal, that's a lie! It is illegal, unless it's for of a crime The objective 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 nobody there to protect ya Except a bunch of human rights inspectors
Is life living 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! Is life worth living if you living in When the is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I the system to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and kind of take advantage on the people that are and at an economic disadvantage. - This Chinese woman made T-shirts and pants at the until she became pregnant. - I told 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 management coerces female workers who become pregnant into having abortions. - But human rights say it's common practice - Inside that factory Chinese law applies, and law is... is supreme - Even though it's the United of America? - The flag doesn't fly there.