i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president obama and republican challenger mitt romney will hold their second debate tonight at new york's hofstra university. president obama faces increasing pressure after what many deemed a lackluster performance during the first debate in denver, colorado earlier this month. the romney campaign has since received a boost in the polls and raised a record $170 million in september. recent polls show the rivals are tied -- and abc news/washington post survey released monday suggests 49% of voters are for the democratic president while 46% support his republican rival. on the campaign trail over the last week, obama slammed romney for recanting on many of his previous positions. >> these days, mitt romney is for what ever you are for. suddenly, he loves the middle- class british cannot stop talking enough about them. he loves medicare. he lets teachers. he even loves the most important parts of o

i'm amy goodman in santa fe, new mexico, with nermeen shaikh.usands of chinese workers staged a one day strike at the foxconn factory known for poorly treating workers who help make apple products such as the iphone. the group china labor watch said up to 4000 foxconn workers walked off the job in protest of new employee demands including working through a holiday that began last week. foxconn allegedly raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding skills, leadinghigh levels of stress. this is what one foxconn worker told a cnn reporter earlier this year about her experience. she preferred to remain anonymous, so as to not lose her job. >> it is so boring. i cannot bear it anymore. everything was like, i get up for work and go to bed. i get up in the morning and go to work. it became my daily routine and almost fell like a was some kind of animal. >> that was a chinese worker at foxconn, apple's controversial chinese supplier. foxconn initially denied that a strike was taking place but la