Spokescouncil

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A collection of affinity groups and clusters (a collection of affinity groups), who meet together for a common purpose, often civil disobedience. A "spoke" is short for a "spokesperson", selected by each affinity group of cluster to represent them in the spokescouncil. The council usually makes decisions via a consensus decision making process.

Some successful employment of spokescouncils within the United States:

• Seattle, during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protests.
• San Francisco Bay Area, leading up to "Day X" - the day-after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. These took place under the network known as Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW).