Best Ngo Stories Podcasts (2025)

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Niveen and Malak on Creating Change Under Occupation 22:29

5M ago22:29

22:29

How do Palestinian women navigate the dual challenges of military occupation and a patriarchal society? This episode features a conversation with Niveen and Malak, two passionate participants from the Youth Bridges for Democracy and Participation project. Recorded in Bethlehem, these inspiring women from Hebron share their personal stories of resil…

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Raneen Shweiki's Story of Shaping Betlehem's Future 19:57

5M ago19:57

19:57

Join us as we interview Raneen Shweiki, an young voice from Bethlehem, who shares her journey with the Youth Bridges for Democracy and Participation project. Growing up amidst the vibrant yet challenging backdrop of Bethlehem, Raneen reveals how the initiative has empowered her and fellow youth, especially women, to become active participants in lo…

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Dania Maale's Journey of Youth Advocacy in Beit Jala 18:47

6M ago18:47

18:47

Curious about how young leaders are shaping the future of Palestine? Our latest podcast episode features an inspiring conversation with Dania Mali, a dedicated advocate from Beit Jala, who shares her transformative journey with the Youth Bridges for Democracy and Participation project. Through this initiative by PAX the Palestinian Center for Peace…

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Media training for Palestinian youth 31:47

1+ y ago31:47

31:47

This is the third and last part of a trilogy about the 'Civil Society for Dignity' project, a project by MEND, PCR, PCPD and PAX for Peace, supported by the European Union. This project aims to bridge the gap between the Palestinian civil society and the local governments. In this last episode Anwaar, who works for MEND and is the media and outreac…

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Palestinian civil society involvement 36:16

1+ y ago36:16

36:16

This is the second part of a trilogy about the 'Civil Society for Dignity' project, a project by MEND, PCR, PCPD and PAX for Peace, supported by the European Union. This project aims to bridge the gap between the Palestinian civil society and the local governments. In this episode you will learn more about the project 'Civil Society for Dignity' it…

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Introduction to Palestinian civil society 35:14

1+ y ago35:14

35:14

This is the first part of a trilogy about the 'Civil Society for Dignity' project, a project by MEND, PCR, PCPD and PAX for Peace, supported by the European Union. This project aims to bridge the gap between the Palestinian civil society and the local governments. In this first episode you will learn more about the political reality for Palestinian…

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#69 He Wanted to Hit the Gym by James Tang 21:58

2y ago21:58

21:58

Actor James Tang shares an embarrassing high school story that scarred him for life, and it all started because his friend wanted to hit the gym. Episode available on beststoryinevertold.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and more.By Best Story I Never Told

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#68 My Serial Killer Story by Polartropica 31:18

2y ago31:18

31:18

“Space Rock” pop star Polartropica beams down to Earth to share the complete untold story behind one of her biggest hit songs and it involves death, the desert, and dating. Episode available on beststoryinevertold.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and more.By Best Story I Never Told

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Resolution 8:04

2+ y ago8:04

8:04

Often our New Year’s resolutions are lighthearted, and usually, the flesh being weak, they are fleeting. Before Valentine’s Day or maybe even before Epiphany, we have slipped back into our old ways. But these lighthearted resolutions reflect a deeper, more serious impulse.

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Tidings of Great Joy 7:52

2+ y ago7:52

7:52

At the time of the American founding, celebrations of Christmas in America varied widely, from Puritans and Quakers who shunned or ignored it, to other Protestants and Catholics who honored it in their own Christian ways, to those who spent the day in “riot and dissipation,” like an ancient Roman Saturnalia. But E Pluribus Unum—out of many one—was …

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All of You on the Good Earth 8:30

2+ y ago8:30

8:30

President Kennedy told a special joint session of Congress that it was “time for a great new American Enterprise.”

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Pearl Harbor and the Art of Politics 7:28

2+ y ago7:28

7:28

December 7, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II. It is one of many days in the American year that inspire reflection on the most violent and determinative human event: war—and the art of war that aims to control and direct that most uncontrollable human undertaking.…

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Andy Ngo 7:34

2+ y ago7:34

7:34

After the American defeat in Vietnam in 1975, the communists confiscated the homes, businesses, property, and savings of those south Vietnamese supposed to be “counterrevolutionaries.” Hundreds of thousands of these men, women, and children were forced into what were called “reeducation” camps. Many risked their lives and fled, including Binh and M…

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Sarah Josepha Hale 7:11

2+ y ago7:11

7:11

Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788. In an era when the average American life expectancy was forty years, she lived until 1879—91 years—and has been remembered by posterity primarily for two things: the poem popularly known as “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and the American tradition of Thanksgiving. Hale made herself “one of the most i…

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Gettysburg 6:22

2+ y ago6:22

6:22

What makes Gettysburg America’s most hallowed ground? A delegation of Russian historians at the height of the Cold War seemed to know, when American historians had forgotten.

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One More for Chesty 7:13

2+ y ago7:13

7:13

“Chesty” Puller was a Marine’s Marine. To this day, in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted, “Do one more for Chesty! Chesty Puller never quit!” His combat service record is astonishing: he is the most decorated Marine in history. Chesty insisted that he did not love fighting. But if there was a fight, he wanted in on it, and he generally …

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Bullets for Ballots: 1860 (3 of 3) 7:15

2+ y ago7:15

7:15

Until the election of 1860, the truths proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence had been the ground of American civic friendship, above all the central truth that all men are created equal. Fidelity to this most American idea held the country together through many divisions since 1776. The Confederate States rejected that idea. America had los…

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Ballots for Bullets: 1800 (2 of 3) 7:23

2+ y ago7:23

7:23

The election of 1800 in America came after a decade of bitter and extreme party strife. Each side accused the other of aiming to overthrow the Constitution and preparing the way for tyranny. There was no precedent, including the experience of 1776, for resolving such differences without appealing to bullets. But ballots prevailed and power was tran…

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Bullets and Ballots: 1776 6:05

2+ y ago6:05

6:05

Americans are being reminded how fragile and precious an achievement it is to establish the legitimate authority of government through peaceful and free elections. But there would be no ballots without the bullets of 1776. We hold elections in America because, as the Declaration of Independence says, we think “the just powers of government are deri…

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Thank God for being an American 6:48

2+ y ago6:48

6:48

P.G. Wodehouse was one of the best writers in the English language in the 20th century and the funniest. He wrote nearly 100 delightful books, each one of which in perfectly orchestrated sentences, can make you fall laughing out of your beach chair. He became an American citizen in 1955, wrote an autobiography titled “America, I like you.” Read any…

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Charlie Brown 8:09

2+ y ago8:09

8:09

There is more of Charlie Brown in most of us than there is Abraham Lincoln or Michael Jordan. We identify with his failures and suffer with him. But it isn’t just his failures. Charlie Brown is resilient. He never quits. Despite setbacks and moments of despair, he is at heart an optimist — and one of America’s greatest success stories.…

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⚡️Belarusians soldiers commit suicide in the army. Through cadet school into protests: Denis’s story 38:00

2+ y ago38:00

38:00

The conscription into the army is conducted twice a year: in spring and in autumn. Every year about 10 thousand young men are called up to compulsory military service in Belarus. Almost every year we get news about suicides, suicide attempts and extra-judicial executions in the Belarusian army.In August 2020, he took an active part in protests agai…

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“Make Cakes!” 7:49

2+ y ago7:49

7:49

During peak hours, in the 300 block of Brand Boulevard in the city of Glendale, in what is called “Metropolitan Los Angeles,” you might see a line of eager people making their way into Porto’s Bakery & Café. You might see a similar scene in Buena Park, Burbank, Downey, or West Covina. Porto’s is a many-splendored gift to the Southland. And it’s not…

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#67 Best Movie I Don’t Talk About by Zury Ruiz 32:22

2+ y ago32:22

32:22

Former clown school student (see Ep. 20) and current playwright Zury Ruiz returns to the pod to reveal the best movie she never talks about, and it stars Saoirse Ronan. Episode available on beststoryinevertold.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and more.By Best Story I Never Told

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Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver 6:42

2+ y ago6:42

6:42

The Declaration’s great American proclamation that “all men are created equal” and the first three words of the Constitution—“We the People”—are profoundly connected. The relation between these two ideas—equality and consent—is the vital center of American political freedom.

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#66 The Library at Midnight by Katherine E. Lewis 37:54

2+ y ago37:54

37:54

Convergence – Book One: Incarnation author Katherine E. Lewis recalls visiting her hometown library at midnight, which became much more than photo opportunity. Episode available on beststoryinevertold.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and more.By Best Story I Never Told

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We the People 6:40

2+ y ago6:40

6:40

September 17 is Constitution Day in America because on that day in 1787, after 4 months of deliberations, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Independence Hall in Philadelphia proposed the Constitution they had drafted to become the Supreme Law of the land. This was the end of one historic deliberation, but it was the beginning of ano…

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🔥Steal the Army from lukashenka: how Belarusians can help Ukraine. Corruption in body bags purchase for soldiers 21:48

2+ y ago21:48

21:48

Our aim is to steal the army from lukashenka and to block his every attempt to send the Belarusian army to help putin in Ukraine. The campaign “NO Means NO!” is telling the old dictator that the Belarusians will do everything to make lukashenka go to the war and fight alone, if he wants that so much! The more so, as he learned how to touch an assau…

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9/11 6:33

2+ y ago6:33

6:33

Twenty-one years have come and gone since September 11, 2001 became “9/11.” It is a day not just for mourning victims but for honoring heroes, those on Flight 93 and the many civilians and first responders who risked and gave their lives trying to save others.

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This Was a Man 6:33

2+ y ago6:33

6:33

Frederick Bailey was born into slavery in 1818. With determination, courage, some help from others, and good luck, he managed to escape to freedom when he was 20 years old. He made his way to Massachusetts, gave himself a new name, Frederick Douglass, started working as a free man and very soon gave a triumphant first speech to an abolitionist grou…

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Our Finest Hour 6:37

2+ y ago6:37

6:37

America’s greatest enemy is not the Chinese or the Russians, or some other foreign tyranny—though they might indeed kill us if we continue so fecklessly to defend ourselves. But what will they kill? The body of a country that has lost its soul, unless we do something about it. Our greatest enemy is the bad ideas that have miseducated Americans so t…

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Soul of Freedom 7:05

2+ y ago7:05

7:05

Every year in August, the oldest synagogue in America—Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island—holds a public reading of a letter written by George Washington to the congregation early in his first term as the first President of the United States. The letter ranks high among the documents affirming and defining the unprecedented American experiment…

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Hank’s Roadside Bar & Grill 6:52

3y ago6:52

6:52

The American story isn’t just history. We write the American story ourselves every day with the choices we make as individuals and as a country.

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Yvonne, I Love You 8:24

3y ago8:24

8:24

The beautiful 17-year-old actress Madeleine LeBeau fled Paris in June, 1940, just hours before the Germans marched in. Like thousands of other refugees, she and her husband made their way with forged visas and all the complications, uncertainties, and delays imaginable in wartime. Just two years later, still only nineteen, Madeleine LeBeau would pl…

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As Time Goes By 7:29

3y ago7:29

7:29

One of the most popular films in Hollywood history, “Casablanca” seems to be composed of one famous line after another. For over 75 years, it has inspired us to stand up and sing in defiance of tyranny and on behalf of the cause of freedom.

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The Anti-slavery Constitution [3 of 3] 6:27

3y ago6:27

6:27

Among the many challenges to the statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution, none was more fundamental or intractable than the problem of slavery. On August 21 the Constitutional Convention, meeting in Independence Hall in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, officially took up a provision that forbade the Congress they were designing forever …

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Anti-slavery Declaration [2 of 3] 6:20

3y ago6:20

6:20

Jefferson drafted the Declaration, a committee reviewed it, corrections were made, and on July 2-4, Congress—in the midst of much other pressing business of fighting a war—edited it into the final form. They made important changes, including deletion of a passage denouncing the king of Great Britain for imposing the slave trade on America. This del…

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Anti-slavery Revolution [1 of 3] 6:40

3y ago6:40

6:40

Slavery has been around since the beginning of human history. It was practiced among the native peoples of north America before and after Europeans arrived, and it was legal in every American colony in the years prior to the American Revolution. Then a great historic change began, a revolution in the hearts and minds of the British colonists that w…

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Independence Forever! 5:57

3y ago5:57

5:57

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams celebrate their last Fourth of July.

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⚡️Visa denials to refugees from the war. Disgraced Gazmanov and Vaenga are in Minsk. Literature banned in Belarus 25:28

3y ago25:28

25:28

The only option to avoid becoming a weapon in the hands of the regime is to leave Belarus. Our common task is to make sure that young guys and men of conscription age know and understand that they will be supported if they take that decision and will be helped to adapt in a foreign country and to solve all current problems they encounter.And more a…

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God’s in His Heaven 8:14

3y ago8:14

8:14

Twenty-Twenty seems to have spread like a virus into 2021. A third of the way through the year and still across the country citizens bludgeoned into isolation, locked in their homes by the latest mandate, huddled around computer screens and cell phones hour by hour awaiting announcement of the next tribulation. It was too much to take in; disorient…

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How Sleep the Brave 6:30

3y ago6:30

6:30

Back in that spring and summer of 1775, when he was just seven years old and the War for Independence swirled around him and his family, John Quincy Adams remembered, “[my mother] taught me to repeat daily after the Lord’s prayer [the Ode of Collins] before rising from bed."

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Belarus: With Cancer to Five Years in Prison. lukashenko: Preparing for War? 27:58

3y ago27:58

27:58

To keep a man with stage four cancer behind bars without providing him with full medical care is torture and a violation of human rights. Unfortunately, Pavel is not alone – most prisoners in Belarus are not provided with medical care. There are simply no chances to get the necessary examination or medications. lukashenko is killing people this way…

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Days to Remember 7:04

3y ago7:04

7:04

Among many days worthy of remembrance, one that is often forgotten is June 8, 1789, when James Madison, in the first Congress under the newly ratified Constitution, addressed the House in a historic speech. The government had been operating for only a few months. Several states had submitted proposed amendments to the Constitution which Madison enc…

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lukashenko turns Belarusian Children into Soldiers, Prisoners and Pioneers 35:27

3y ago35:27

35:27

Belarusian officials are vying with one another on the regime’s media talking about their concern for children, opening children’s hospitals and clinics as a showcase for their work. However, they are silent about the most significant thing – children in prisons, illegally detained, children announced to be in socially dangerous situations and take…

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John Wayne 7:24

3y ago7:24

7:24

John Wayne began life as Marion Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. After his family made its way to L.A., and an injury sidelined him from USC football, he began working full-time as a prop man for movie studios. His natural strength, good spirit, good looks, and determination carried him through nearly a decade of B-movies before he became a star. Thirt…

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'Khazaeen' cabinets, a living archive of Palestinian stories 45:43

3y ago45:43

45:43

In the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Israeli settlers are in the process of taking over many Palestinian houses, there is an archive where Palestinians can store their photos, diaries, posters and other tangible documents. It is the first Palestinian run archive that is trying to collect memories, history AND documents that are produced TODA…

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Known But to God 6:45

3y ago6:45

6:45

More than 4 million visitors come to Arlington National Cemetery every year from across America and around the world and, unless they have their own personal visit to make, the thing they most want to do is to climb the hill to the high ground of the Memorial Amphitheater and visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.…

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Community Action Center to empower the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem 56:49

3y ago56:49

56:49

In 1999 Al-Quds University created the “Community Action Center” (“CAC”), a semi autonomous association, which aims to empower the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem. The CAC aims to empower the disadvantaged Palestinians of East Jerusalem to access their rights and entitlements and negotiate the complex bureaucratic procedures that control th…

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I Kiss the Ground 6:22

3y ago6:22

6:22

One of America’s greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903. Growing up, he worked hard, excelled in school, and fell in love with American freedom and the American common man giving us such films as “Mr. Smith Goe…

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