In 2007, the journal "October" posed a question via questionnaire: "In what ways have artists, academics, and cultural institutions responded to the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq?" They use Mark Tribe's "The Port Huron Project" as an example of how protest can inform intellectual history. Tribe's project is described as one that serves as proof of the influence of historic protests on cultural producers. This article begs the question: what is the relation of "The Port Huron Project" to the history that it reenacts? In his project, Tribe's reenactment of The Port Huron Statement does not interpret the past but re-presents it, its temporal dislocation allowing for a historical intervention.