You will have to reach out to those people, communication will improve their affinity for you, imo.
I doubt they will let you record them, but at least they will know that you are harmless.
If you haven't read their authors, Kropotkin and Berkman, then you can't know that not joining them makes YOU wrong, also, imo.
Sorry you got caught up in a lack of them knowing you, but you don't really know them, either, do you?
I hope you do reach out, be a bridge between those that know and those that accept what is fed to them.