Can people talking together save the world? A better question: can the world be saved unless people talk together?
The Study Circles Resource Center has been working on community dialogue on important social and political issues for many years now.
General materials include how to organize a community-wide study group or a study group within your organization. Specific topics are heavy on diversity and racial justice issues, but include other issues as well.
Online action and giving opportunities.
A handy printable brochure from the American Civil Liberties Union on your rights -- unfortunately, a brochure that's needed as civil liberties are traded for "national security."