At our Chapter Convention on March 15, 2025, Madison Area DSA passed a resolution called "Doing Politics in Public: Power Mapping, Popular Democracy, and a Plan for a People’s Platform". As part of this resolution, the chapter will take on a research project to "power map" Madison with the goal of understanding who holds power in our city and how we can seize it to win a socialist future for Madison.

In this first meeting for the project, we will learn what power mapping is and how to do it, and do some initial brainstorming about who to include in our power map.