Amie J. Woeber
@amiejwoeber.bsky.social
Pacific Islands Consulting | Democracy Promotion, Programming, and Management | International Development & Advocacy
(Future) President & Executive Director of #DemocracyNeedsWomen
(Future) President & Executive Director of #DemocracyNeedsWomen
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Amie J. Woeber
@amiejwoeber.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Thank you for your interest in partnering with #DemocracyNeedsWomen!
Dear Democracy Champion,
During my years leading democracy programs across the Pacific Islands, I have repeatedly heard the same frustration: there are not enough women in elected office.
Many women ...
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When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
This is her story... and the story of too many others.
New, @propublica.org
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We're hiring for the following positions:
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
For details, visit protectdemocracy.org/jobs
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
For details, visit protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We're hiring for the following positions:
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
For details, visit protectdemocracy.org/jobs
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
For details, visit protectdemocracy.org/jobs
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Who could have foreseen this except anyone
“.. the bulletin cites five 2025 incidents involving fake immigration officers and says criminals are using Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s heightened profile to target vulnerable communities ..”
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Who could have foreseen this except anyone
"Recent studies and lived experience [have shown] what our elders have always known-the harm is deeper, broader, and longer lasting than what the world once believed."
Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy
Legislators are urging Pacific parliaments to establish and strengthen independent human rights institutions to seek justice for nuclear testing victims.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Recent studies and lived experience [have shown] what our elders have always known-the harm is deeper, broader, and longer lasting than what the world once believed."
📣 Calling all #Democracy champions across the #PacificIslands! 🌏
Do you believe #DemocracyNeedsWomen? Then join us!
I'm seeking:
✅ Paid #consultants & #contractors
✅ Volunteer experts & academics
✅ Local NGOs & CSOs for partnerships
Submit your #ExpressionOfInterest👇
forms.gle/PX6s7LNQq3Rf...
Do you believe #DemocracyNeedsWomen? Then join us!
I'm seeking:
✅ Paid #consultants & #contractors
✅ Volunteer experts & academics
✅ Local NGOs & CSOs for partnerships
Submit your #ExpressionOfInterest👇
forms.gle/PX6s7LNQq3Rf...
Thank you for your interest in partnering with #DemocracyNeedsWomen!
Dear Democracy Champion,
During my years leading democracy programs across the Pacific Islands, I have repeatedly heard the same frustration: there are not enough women in elected office.
Many women ...
forms.gle
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📣 Calling all #Democracy champions across the #PacificIslands! 🌏
Do you believe #DemocracyNeedsWomen? Then join us!
I'm seeking:
✅ Paid #consultants & #contractors
✅ Volunteer experts & academics
✅ Local NGOs & CSOs for partnerships
Submit your #ExpressionOfInterest👇
forms.gle/PX6s7LNQq3Rf...
Do you believe #DemocracyNeedsWomen? Then join us!
I'm seeking:
✅ Paid #consultants & #contractors
✅ Volunteer experts & academics
✅ Local NGOs & CSOs for partnerships
Submit your #ExpressionOfInterest👇
forms.gle/PX6s7LNQq3Rf...
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Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
I was very sorry to hear of Premier Suidani's passing. He was a phenomenal partner while I worked on a #USAID program strengthening community input in #SolomonIslands. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and the community he loved.
Daniel Suidani, outspoken former Malaita premier and China critic dies in Honiara
Daniel Suidani, the former premier of Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands and China critic, has died in Honiara.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I was very sorry to hear of Premier Suidani's passing. He was a phenomenal partner while I worked on a #USAID program strengthening community input in #SolomonIslands. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and the community he loved.
This is why more than 7 million people who consider themselves Republican, Democrat, and everything in between turned out for the #NoKings protest on Saturday.
Record-High 62% Say U.S. Government Has Too Much Power
Views that the federal government has too much power are now slightly higher than in previous years.
news.gallup.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is why more than 7 million people who consider themselves Republican, Democrat, and everything in between turned out for the #NoKings protest on Saturday.
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Pacific officials criticise New Zealand's weaker methane targets
Pacific officials criticise New Zealand's weaker methane targets
However, Climate Minister Simon Watts says "we cut production to meet targets, we risk shifting production to countries who are not as emissions-efficient".
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Pacific officials criticise New Zealand's weaker methane targets
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Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, announces caretaker government
Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, announces caretaker government
The Bougainville president has announced an interim government following a formal swearing-in ceremony on Monday in the capital Buka.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, announces caretaker government
None of this is done “reluctantly.” All of this is deliberate. No one - and I mean no one - should feel sorry for anyone driving mass firings and chaos.
October 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
None of this is done “reluctantly.” All of this is deliberate. No one - and I mean no one - should feel sorry for anyone driving mass firings and chaos.
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President Trump spent $15 billion in taxpayer dollars to lose 200,000+ federal jobs and millions of combined years of experience.
We lit up Washington, D.C. to expose the Trump-Vance administration’s reckless dismantling of the federal government.
We lit up Washington, D.C. to expose the Trump-Vance administration’s reckless dismantling of the federal government.
September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
President Trump spent $15 billion in taxpayer dollars to lose 200,000+ federal jobs and millions of combined years of experience.
We lit up Washington, D.C. to expose the Trump-Vance administration’s reckless dismantling of the federal government.
We lit up Washington, D.C. to expose the Trump-Vance administration’s reckless dismantling of the federal government.
This isn’t just about Democrats blocking Republicans. It’s about our elected leaders, regardless of power, standing up for democracy, the rule of law, and the pose of the voters themselves.
Analysis: For only the second time since Donald Trump took office in January, Democrats who are out of power in Washington find themselves in a situation where they have actual leverage to block him and his party.
Analysis | Why Democrats are holding firm on conditions ahead of shutdown
Democrats are using their limited leverage ahead of a potential government shutdown, hoping to convince Americans that GOP spending priorities are the real danger.
wapo.st
September 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This isn’t just about Democrats blocking Republicans. It’s about our elected leaders, regardless of power, standing up for democracy, the rule of law, and the pose of the voters themselves.
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Through many of his actions, Trump is siding with and thereby promoting strongman politics in a continent with a dismal and not terribly remote history of this kind of rule, columnist @hofrench.bsky.social writes.
Trump Is Ushering in the Era of the Strongman
The U.S. president is promoting iron-fisted rule throughout the Western Hemisphere.
foreignpolicy.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Through many of his actions, Trump is siding with and thereby promoting strongman politics in a continent with a dismal and not terribly remote history of this kind of rule, columnist @hofrench.bsky.social writes.
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“In the job as national security adviser, I really felt, maybe naively, that I didn’t have to be a partisan political person; I just had to get the president best advice,” H.R. McMaster tells Jeffrey Goldberg at #TAF25. Watch here: bit.ly/46a5DUE
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“In the job as national security adviser, I really felt, maybe naively, that I didn’t have to be a partisan political person; I just had to get the president best advice,” H.R. McMaster tells Jeffrey Goldberg at #TAF25. Watch here: bit.ly/46a5DUE
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Nothing about us without us.
We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.
They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.
We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.
They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Nothing about us without us.
We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.
They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.
We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.
They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.
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"2024 was the ninth year in a row with more democratic declines than advances—the longest such stretch since 1975."
Global State of #Democracy Report 2025 is now out.
#USA "lies at the ‘cusp of #autocracy’".
"US domestic political institutions have...lost much of their symbolic sheen."
Global State of #Democracy Report 2025 is now out.
#USA "lies at the ‘cusp of #autocracy’".
"US domestic political institutions have...lost much of their symbolic sheen."
Democracy around the world has weakened, with most countries declining in their performance while #PressFreedom suffered its most far-reaching fall in 50 years, according to @internationalidea.bsky.social's #GlobalStateOfDemocracy Report #OutNow.
Read the #GSod2025 report ➡️ www.idea.int/gsod/2025
Read the #GSod2025 report ➡️ www.idea.int/gsod/2025
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"2024 was the ninth year in a row with more democratic declines than advances—the longest such stretch since 1975."
Global State of #Democracy Report 2025 is now out.
#USA "lies at the ‘cusp of #autocracy’".
"US domestic political institutions have...lost much of their symbolic sheen."
Global State of #Democracy Report 2025 is now out.
#USA "lies at the ‘cusp of #autocracy’".
"US domestic political institutions have...lost much of their symbolic sheen."
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Democracy means believing in each other. It’s deciding together what kind of society we want.
On this #DemocracyDay, let’s put “we” back at the centre. We can do it — if we dare.
www.coe.int/en/web/new-d...
On this #DemocracyDay, let’s put “we” back at the centre. We can do it — if we dare.
www.coe.int/en/web/new-d...
Today, on the International Day of Democracy, the Council of Europe launches the website of the New Democratic Pact for Europe.
A Pact for stronger democratic foundations and more tangible results for all.
Explore: go.coe.int/qkL9M
#NewDemocraticPact
A Pact for stronger democratic foundations and more tangible results for all.
Explore: go.coe.int/qkL9M
#NewDemocraticPact
September 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Democracy means believing in each other. It’s deciding together what kind of society we want.
On this #DemocracyDay, let’s put “we” back at the centre. We can do it — if we dare.
www.coe.int/en/web/new-d...
On this #DemocracyDay, let’s put “we” back at the centre. We can do it — if we dare.
www.coe.int/en/web/new-d...
Nepal has a new prime minister – and for the first time in the country’s history, it’s a woman.
Nepal’s Gen Z Movement Crowns Former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as Interim Leader
Nepal has a new prime minister – and for the first time in the country’s history, it’s a woman.
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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In just a few days, you’ve really filled up the map of No Kings Day events for October 18!
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In just a few days, you’ve really filled up the map of No Kings Day events for October 18!
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Trump links Wisconsin storm relief to electoral results. Trump also lost Wisconsin to Joe Biden in 2020.
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump links Wisconsin storm relief to electoral results. Trump also lost Wisconsin to Joe Biden in 2020.
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Solomon Islands becomes first in Pacific to remove tax on period products
Solomon Islands becomes first in Pacific to remove tax on period products
Poor menstrual hygiene has long been a critical issue in the Solomon Islands, affecting not only women's health but also school attendance and academic performance.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Solomon Islands becomes first in Pacific to remove tax on period products
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A senator from Guam pushes for nuclear accountability for the Marshall Islands at an international summit, highlighting regional concerns.
Senator advocates for Marshall Islands nuclear accountability at Taiwan summit
Sen. Telo Taitague returned to Guam last week after representing the island at a Pacific parliamentary gathering in Taiwan, where she championed a resolution calling for renewed U.S. accountability fo...
www.postguam.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A senator from Guam pushes for nuclear accountability for the Marshall Islands at an international summit, highlighting regional concerns.