They meet every night in Portland. Just look for the smoke and debris. Or you can contact a local Democrat politician if you want a meet up closer to home. If you just want an internet connection, I believe Twitter still protects their mostly peaceful antics. There are multiple active Antifa groups and individuals there.
Antifa at least in the US appear on our radar when Trump was brought into power. Of course they have their own history in Germany and trace back to the US punk movements in the 80's as a response to Nazi Skinheads.
Why is this, what is their argument.
It ain't just a zest for communism or to get rid of private property.
What does Trump represent. What did Nixon represent?
Antifa appears and I can't blame them to despise the hierarchical system that Trump champions(racial hierarchy). Confederate statues will be protected at all costs(put a scratch on these silly monuments and go to prison for ten years). Cops will continue to bash your skulls and you will continue to go to prison how they see fit, you will respect my "total" authority, while I live in a world completely removed from your gritty dirty existence thanks to the wealth($600 million) my father gave me.
Authoritarianism based on racial or biological identity obviously seems to be at the heart of this as we see the Far Right emboldened with the daily incoherent ramblings of the Fuhrer....I mean our President.
So America is now showing the polarization between far Right and far Left to a much greater extreme, it's always been there, ready to bubble to the surface.
Where is the institutional power of antifa, where do they stick people they disagree with, do they have prisons, gulags, do they have a police force, a national spy agency, or millions of far right armed men draped in their national deity the american flag(much like the swastika) willing to protect it to the death with religious fervor.
Noam Chomsky said it best, you don't win against fascists by using any sort of violence, you win by argument, in this case antifa likes to out or publicly shame people if they can dig up evidence of bigotry which can often destroy reputations and careers. Freedom of speech could be argued, but antifa will do what they do so like always, you are free to say anything you want and suffer the consequences.
What this has to do with any of us(average joes), probably absolutely nothing. Most of us on this forum are white males, we probably make decent livings, have a higher than average net worth and are clearly insulated from the cares of those on the bottom or top of the economic food chain.
So why so much fear of antifa, an organization that has no leader, no real power, at least nothing like the police state, surveillance state, prison state that is currently in complete control of this country.
It's not about race, it's not about being black or jewish. Seems the white man was pissed off and enraged by Obama's administration as he wouldn't point out the obvious evils of terrorism and the religion of Islam, so you get this built up anger that crescendos into Trump, that has done a good job of handling Islamist, but dropped the ball when dealing with far Right whack jobs that always want to pull the tough guy horseshit.
Once again I'm not for any extremes, most people just want to be left alone, point out evil where evil exists.......Islam, Evangelicals, Catholics, Far Right, Far Left, Police(the most dangerous imo) and Prison State....ect. We should never tolerate clear examples of bullshit. We should never tolerate violence, we should be able to play this ga,e like chess to defeat the people that represent ideas, religions....ect that have past their prime and are in desperate need of being flushed.
I have no need to nationalism, socialism, theocracy, communism, Marxism, Capitalism or any of these isms. I have no need to compete with others. Just the need to be left completely alone, unbothered by a state that will and can stick a gun to my head as if I was property.
Self ownership should be our goal, wherever that leads us.