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Distribution and Activism

Outer Voices will go beyond documentary coverage of these women and their work to serve as a multi-faceted tool for grassroots activists.

Broadcast on public radio: As of 2006, Outer Voices radio documentaries have been broadcast on over 450 stations in the U.S. and internationally. We will continue to market directly to radio stations here and abroad to reach as large of an audience as possible.

These pieces inform listeners about models of non-violent social change, and also create broad public awareness, outside of the activist community, about the political conditions faced by the women we are documenting, which are not only out of the mainstream media spotlight, but often completely unknown. Carriage reports for the Hula Lesson and Girls From Cambodia are available here:

Outer Voices website: We will post and maintain a website that will serve as an on-going repository of Outer Voices content and an online crossroads for grassroots activists. We expect that online resources will include the complete radio documentaries and written transcripts; additional audio from the source interviews; documentary photographs; links to activist groups worldwide; and an online bulletin board for information-sharing and organizing.

The site will also feature an extensive page of links to activist groups in Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the West, along with an online bulletin board in which activists from any number of countries can post queries, share methodologies, news, anecdotes, and more.

Direct distribution to activists:We are in the process of developing a roster of women's activist groups worldwide with whom we are already working, and who want to receive tapes of all or some of the broadcasts for their own purposes. Additionally, in collaboration with networking organizations and educators worldwide, the Project Team will distribute free copies of the documentaries directly to groups that can use them for their own organizing or education initiatives.

As requested, we will also make available additional material from the audio interviews, along with written transcripts of the documentaries and/or unedited interviews.

The responses we receive to the first series will inform us about how to continue to develop the documentary, the website, and resource materials. After this series is complete, we expect to continue to use Outer Voices as a documentary and tool for creating social change. We hope that our initial focus on the stories of the women of the Pacific Rim will help to create real links to a region that is largely forgotten by the rest of the world in the daily news; and that will allow the listener to find true stories of leadership from which the rest of the world can benefit.

We also expect that after developing this documentary, we will continue to hear and document the stories of women from other parts of the globe.

"We all have a common goal; we know this in our hearts—to make a more compassionate society for our children, for our sons and daughters, for future generations, a more compassionate society for the earth."
—Mililani Trask, Hawaiian activist

"Know your past. It’s your foundation for your present and the path to your future."
—Pualani Kanahele, Hawaiian activist