- When you over in Samoa, what...what surprised 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 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 there is verily ninety degrees and inside the factory or the dormitory it reaches way over a hundred degrees.
1]: It's the form 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 year old tryna feed his mama He exposed to and disease And only 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 let them speak in sign language And they're suffering from lung disease and eye hour shifts, seven days a week two shitty meals a day, very sleep Human life worth three cents an hour All human right laws loose of power What did four years in the grave passes? the improved cleverness of slave masters.
Is life worth living if you 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! Is life worth living if you in hell? the mind is confined to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they in the system that fail But I the system to fail!
- Many 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 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 over a billion dollars worth to power And getting paid twenty cents an hour They make cloths for McDonald's and for Bee's And working fourteen hour shifts in prison And while we sit debating who the wack emcee is They to work when arthritic pain attack the knees is not illegal, that's a fucking lie! It is illegal, unless it's for 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 real criminal keeping you For a petty but they give you two-to-nine And ain't there 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 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 to a prisoner's cell? And the lies they devise in the that fail But I expect the to fail!
- The sweatshop situation's kind of and kind of take advantage 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. - 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 workers say it's common practice - Inside that factory law applies, and Chinese law is... is supreme - though it's the United States of America? - The flag fly inside there.