{"id":7338,"date":"2024-08-22T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chancemaker.foundation\/?post_type=chancemaker&#038;p=7338"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:16:06","slug":"zain-raza","status":"publish","type":"chancemaker","link":"https:\/\/chancemaker.foundation\/en\/chancemaker\/zain-raza\/","title":{"rendered":"Zain Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>Zain was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1987 and moved to Karachi in Pakistan with his family in 1993. After living there for 13 years, he returned to Germany. He spent the first few years researching why countries like Pakistan, unlike countries like Germany, are constantly struggling with terrorism, political problems and poverty. In doing so, he came across geopolitics and in particular the role that the West has played in creating and maintaining these conditions not only in Pakistan, but also in many other countries and regions around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>In 2014, Zain founded the non-profit, independent and international journalistic media network acTVism Munich e.V. Its aim is to to provide information that is rarely or not at all covered by the big media stations and conglomerates. The channel highlights historical contexts and sheds light on the foreign policy of the West from a critical perspective. acTVism Munich now has 151,000 subscribers on YouTube and employs 15 people.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center text-center text-gradient fw-bold mt-3 mb-2\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Initiative<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>acTVism Munich is a non-profit and independent online media portal. Zain and his team produce video reports, organise discussion panels and debates, translate English articles into German and publish guest articles. The portal provides a platform for investigative journalists, academics, scientists, analysts, activists, artists and committed people. Through this diversity of contributions and perspectives, acTVism Munich makes an important contribution to the public discussion of current social issues.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n    <!-- START Slider -->\n    <!-- Slider main container -->\n            <section class=\"container-xl my-5\">\n            <div class=\"swiper block-slider overflow-hidden\">\n                <div class=\"swiper-wrapper ratio ratio-16x9 rounded-5\">\n                                            <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chancemaker.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Snowden-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-100 h-100 object-fit-cover shadow\" \/>\n                            <div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chancemaker.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/acTVism-Munich-Welcome-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-100 h-100 object-fit-cover shadow\" \/>\n                            <div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chancemaker.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/acTVism-Team.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-100 h-100 object-fit-cover shadow\" \/>\n                            <div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n                <!-- If we need pagination -->\n                <div class=\"swiper-pagination-slider text-center\"><\/div>\n                <!-- If we need navigation buttons -->\n                <div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n        <!-- END Slider -->\n\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center text-center text-gradient fw-bold mt-3 mb-2\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>acTVism Munich is perceived as a reliable, independent and polyphonic place of public discourse &#8211; a platform that enables users to obtain well-researched information on socially relevant topics from different perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center text-center text-gradient fw-bold mt-3 mb-2\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme &amp; Activities<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>acTVism Munich produces and publishes four to five videos per week on YouTube and other channels on a variety of topics such as foreign and geopolitics, economics, climate change, European and US politics, media analyses and much more. The information can also accesed as text on the website or on the podcast platform. acTVism Munich also works with other independent and non-profit media networks, translating and publishing their investigative work in German on its YouTube channel, providing information that the major German media houses do not report on.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>acTVism places particular emphasis on issues relating to social, economic and environmental justice by providing a platform for progressive activists working to improve society. 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