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Administrators have justified their actions on May 4 by noting the "troubling" appearance of four men with violent histories in the camp. But they wont say who they were.

Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings.

Featured within are images from unprocessed film, exposed to light by Israeli security forces at a checkpoint. The books design successfully connects material and content, embedding the metaphorical role of censorship into the work and into the reader’s experience of it.

Photographer Morgan Ashcom’s portfolio “OPEN” captures the dynamism and dignity of Palestinian life while simultaneously highlighting the conditions of Israeli oppression.

Jake Romm’s writing and photography have appeared in Aesthetica Magazine, Protean Magazine, The New Inquiry, Hyperallergic, Humble Arts Foundation…