Environmental Activists Say the FBI May Be Investigating Them
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NEW YORK CITY — The group in the Brooklyn studio seemed harmless. There was a graduate student, a Yiddish teacher, a hairdresser. Fifteen people had gathered on a Wednesday night for a training offered by Extinction Rebellion NYC and Climate Defiance, two climate activist groups that engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and theatrical protest. They sat in metal folding chairs eating pizza…