| «When you were over in American Samoa, what surprised you the most?»
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| «I guess what hit me the most was the condition of the factory that the workers
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| were in
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| the factory was surrounded by a fence and barbed wire on top, and on the bottom
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| and they have a chain linked fence around the whole factory, and military
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| compound
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| the gate has a guard shack where the guard sit there and … the worker movement
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| in and out of the factory, the factory made of tin panels, tin roof,
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| it’s really hot
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| the temperature over there is regularly ninety degrees, and inside the factory
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| it reach way over a hundred degrees»
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| Yeah, it’s a contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave labor
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| But they don’t prosecute them 'cause it’s how they make paper
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| When you rockin' that fly shit that’s made in China
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| By an eight year old child tryin' to feed him mama
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| He exposed to contamination and disease
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| And only fifty-five percent of them will get degrees
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| And the women have to try to placate the boss
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| Because of sex discrimination in the labor force
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| The slave master only let them speak in sign language
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| And they sufferin' from lung disease and eye damage
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| Fourteen hour shifts, seven days a week
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| Two shitty meals a day, very little sleep
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| Human life only worth three cents an hour
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| All human rights lost, no sense of power
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| Workin' for a hundred years in the grave passes
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| Only the improved cleverness of slave masters
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| Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?
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| When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
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| And the lies they devise and the system, it fail
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| But I expect the system to fail
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| Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?
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| When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
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| And the lies they devise and the system, it fail
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| But I expect the system to fail
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| «Many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements
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| known as «Shadow contracts"before they leave China
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| severely, and in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on
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| American soil
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| workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political
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| activities
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| or to ask for a salary increase, or even to fall in love or get married»
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| It’s 1.6 million people locked in jail
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| They the new slave labor force, trapped in Hell
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| They generate over a billion dollars worth of power
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| And only gettin' paid twenty cents an hour
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| They make clothes for McDonald’s and for Applebee’s
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| And workin' forty-hour shifts in prison factories
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| And while we sit around debatin' who the wack MC’s
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| They have to work when arthritic pain attack the knees
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| Slavery’s not illegal, that’s a fuckin' lie
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| It’s illegal, unless it’s for conviction of a crime
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| The main objective is to get you in your fuckin' prime
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| And keep the prison full and not give you a fuckin' dime
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| But they the real criminal, keepin' you confined
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| For a petty crime, but they give you two-to-nine
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| And ain’t nobody there to protect ya
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| Except a bunch of incompetent human rights inspectors
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| Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?
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| When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
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| And the lies they devise and the system, it fail
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| But I expect the system to fail
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| Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?
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| When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
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| And the lies they devise and the system, it fail
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| But I expect the system to fail
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| «The sweatshop situation kind of conveys it and kind of take advantage of
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| the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage»
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| «This Chinese woman made t-shirts and pants at the factory
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| until she became pregnant … says she refused to have the abortion
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| and has now been barred from entering the factory»
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| «Allowing them to bring that onto US soil is a very big concern
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| we’ve now documented the fact that management coerces female workers
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| who become pregnant into having abortions»
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| «Human rights workers say it’s common practice»
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| «Inside that factory, Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is supreme»
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| «Even though it’s the United States of America?»
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| «The flag doesn’t fly inside there» |