Rockers Ozomatli Help Students Learn About Immigration Reform

Ozomatli Band Helps Students Learn By Rocking
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 21: Rock band Ozomatli arrives at 'A Better Life' World Premiere Gala Screening during the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE on June 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 21: Rock band Ozomatli arrives at 'A Better Life' World Premiere Gala Screening during the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE on June 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

In Wesley Perez's AP U.S. history and government classes at Hawthorne High School, the Bill of Rights weren't just taught. They were sung.

Perez took funk-infused Latino beats from Los Angeles rockers Ozomatli and wrote his own lyrics to the band's song "After Party."

Oye Baby, oye mami, how I love the Bill of Rights

The first right is freedom of speech, freedom of the cross, and freedom of the press is tight…

On Tuesday, the band furthered its contribution to Perez's class by showing up at Hawthorne's Nyman Hall to discuss immigration reform, capitalism, equal rights and community development.

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