Editing Consensus decision-making (section)

===Spokescouncil===
In the ''spokescouncil'' model, [[affinity groups]] make joint decisions by each designating a speaker and sitting behind that circle of spokespeople, akin to the [[spoke]]s of a wheel. While speaking rights might be limited to each group's designee, the meeting may allot breakout time for the constituent groups to discuss an issue and return to the circle via their spokesperson. In the case of an activist spokescouncil preparing for the [[Washington A16, 2000|A16 Washington D.C. protests in 2000]], affinity groups disputed their spokescouncil's imposition of nonviolence in their action guidelines. They received the reprieve of letting groups self-organize their protests, and as the city's protest was subsequently divided into pie slices, each blockaded by an affinity group's choice of protest. Many of the participants learned about the spokescouncil model on the fly by participating in it directly, and came to better understand their planned action by hearing others' concerns and voicing their own.<ref name="HaworthElmore2017">{{cite book|last1=Jeppesen|first1=Sandra|last2=Adamiak|first2=Joanna|chapter=Street Theory: Grassroots Activist Interventions in Regimes of Knowledge|editor-last1=Haworth|editor-first1=Robert H.|editor-last2=Elmore|editor-first2=John M.|title=Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7ZHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT291|year=2017|publisher=PM Press|isbn=978-1-62963-319-0|page=291}}</ref>