- When you over in American Samoa, what...what surprised you the - I guess what hit me the most is the 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, 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 ninety degrees and inside the 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 'cause it's how they paper When you rocking that fly shit that's made in By an eight year old child tryna feed his He to contamination and disease And fifty-five percent of them will get degrees And the women to try to placate the boss Because it's sex in the labour force The slave master only let them in sign language And they're suffering from lung and eye damage hour shifts, seven days a week two shitty meals a day, little sleep Human life only three cents an hour All human laws loose sense of power What did four hundred in the grave passes? Only the improved of slave masters.
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! Is life worth living if you in hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoner's And the lies devise in the system that fail But I expect the to fail!
- Many Chinese workers are forced to sign 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 slave labour force trapped in They generate over a billion dollars to power And only getting paid cents an hour They make cloths for McDonald's and for Apple And working fourteen hour shifts in factories And we sit around debating who the wack emcee is They to work when arthritic pain attack the knees 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 the prison full and not give you a fucking dime But they the real 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 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 mind is confined to a prisoner's And the lies they devise in the that fail But I expect the to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and kind of advantage on the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage. - This Chinese woman made T-shirts and at the factory until she became pregnant. - When I 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 that management coerces female who become pregnant into having abortions. - But human rights workers say it's practice - that factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - though it's the United States of America? - The doesn't fly inside there.