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title: "Colombia’s displaced communities, industrial action heroes, and the dark side of Buddhism"
date: "2014-12-03T10:38:36+00:00"
modified: "2014-12-03T10:38:36+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2014/12/03/colombias-displaced-communities-industrial-action-heroes-and-the-dark-side-of-buddhism/"
post_id: 6322
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
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# Colombia’s displaced communities, industrial action heroes, and the dark side of Buddhism

1\. [“This mine is terrorism against our people”](/articles/4789/this-mine-is-terrorism-against-our-people)



Over the last 20 years, 17 Colombian communities have “disappeared” as a result of the expansion of the Cerrejon mine. Ewa Jasiewicz reports in this online exclusive.

2\. [Industrial action heroes](/articles/4786/industrial-action-heroes)



Huw Lemmy reviews the film *Pride* in our Winter issue (out now). He argues that the film shows that politics changes people’s lives not only through winning, but through the process of fighting itself.







3\. [The dark side of Buddhism ](/articles/4021/the-dark-side-of-buddhism%20%20)

This article from 2013 has been popular online this week. Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it’s time to think again.

4\. [The city and the sublime](/articles/4751/the-city-and-the-sublime)

In this piece from our Autumn issue, Alice Bell asks if we are more awestruck by our own scientific and technological achievements than by the glory of nature.

5\. [Keeping it holy](/playdice/2149)



Sunday may be the ultimate symbol of Christian dominance. But, argues Sally Feldman in this archive piece from 2007, it could have value for humanists too







*For last month’s top long-reads, [click here](/articles/4774/secular-funerals-tim-minchins-mission-and-south-africas-occult-economy-our-top-5-long-reads).*

*For more on our Winter issue – out now –[ click here](/articles/4781/the-winter-2014-new-humanist-is-out-now).*