A spokescouncil is a collection of affinity groups and clusters (a collection of affinity groups), who meet together for a common purpose, often civil disobedience

Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance...

. "Spokes" is short for "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.

Employment of spokescouncils within the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 occurred in Seattle, during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protests

WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity

Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 , when the World Trade Organization convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington,...

 and in San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

, leading up to "Day X

March 20, 2003 anti-war protest

On March 20, 2003, the day after the invasion of Iraq had begun, thousands of protests and demonstrations were held around the world in opposition to it. In many cases, these protests were known as "Day X" protests, reflecting the fact that they had been organized to occur when war started,...

" - 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

Direct Action to Stop the War

Direct Action to Stop the War was an organization that coordinated nonviolent direct action-based opposition activities to the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization was founded in October 2002 following an overnight sit-in and morning blockade at the San Francisco...

(DASW).

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http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=r9XGjh4eypcC&oi=fnd&pg=PT302&dq=spokescouncil&ots=wGHA9fmzpZ&sig=BspYuZO8-CzAtmiAUtqlt2HyuHA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=spokescouncil&f=false

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http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Interface-3-1-reviews.pdf