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Campaign: Pib Dua Tshiab (Start Over) — Proposed Content

Pib Dua Tshiab. Start Over. Southeast Asian Communities Deserve Safety, Resources, and Self-Determination.Pib Dua Tshiab means "start over" in Hmong. This campaign is led by and for Southeast Asian communities in Wisconsin — Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese — who were recruited as labor and refugees by an imperial state, then abandoned to over-policing, under-resourcing, and the violence of a system that was never designed to protect them.


The Analysis


FAN is grounded in radical queer Black and Southeast Asian feminism. That means Southeast Asian struggles are not an afterthought or a sidebar. They are central to our political analysis. The same imperial state that colonized Black communities in the United States waged war in Southeast Asia, displaced millions, and then resettled refugees in the same neighborhoods it was already over-policing and under-investing in. The domestic colony and the empire are the same system.


In Wisconsin, Hmong and Southeast Asian communities face:

  • Over-policing. Hmong youth are targeted, arrested, and funneled into the same criminal legal system that devastates Black communities.
  • ICE enforcement. The same "routine check-in" that became an arrest trap in California is happening in ICE field offices in Milwaukee. Hmong grandmothers, Lao fathers, Cambodian youth — the ICE-to-prison pipeline runs through Southeast Asian communities.
  • Economic exploitation. Recruited for factory work and agriculture, then abandoned when the factories closed and the farms mechanized. The economic engine that used SEA labor moved on. The communities stayed — without the resources to build their own futures.
  • Cultural erasure. The specific history, languages, and traditions of Southeast Asian communities are invisible in Wisconsin's public institutions. Schools don't teach the Secret War in Laos. Healthcare doesn't speak Hmong. The state takes from SEA communities and gives back silence.

    • The Demand


    Southeast Asian communities must have the resources to define and build their own futures — free from state violence, economic exploitation, and cultural erasure. That means community-controlled safety, culturally competent healthcare and education, language access, and investment in the institutions that SEA communities are already building for themselves.


    The Work


    FAN mobilizes allies to support the Southeast Asian-led organizations building power in Wisconsin's Hmong and SEA communities. We provide numbers, resources, and political legitimacy. We follow their leadership. We amplify their demands. We ensure that the radical queer Black and Southeast Asian feminist analysis that grounds FAN is not just words — it is expressed in which campaigns we resource and whose leadership we follow.


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