Sixty Occupy D.C. protesters held a General Assembly yesterday afternoon in a newly cleared McPherson Square.

Earlier this afternoon, Occupy D.C. protester Sam Jeweler tweeted that he was “trying to figure out how to turn this anger into something productive.” After a weekend that saw the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square largely dismantled by the U.S. Park Police, many of Jeweler’s contemporaries share the same feeling of both anger and anticipation for what’s next.

Yesterday afternoon some 60 protesters gathered in a newly barren park to discuss how a movement that so closely linked its message to its tactics could transition in a post-camping world. No longer was a presence enough to remind the one percent that the 99 percent was watching; from this point on, Occupy D.C. has to make its point without actually occupying.

Thankfully for many who attended the General Assembly, Occupy D.C. isn’t the first off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement to have to evolve from its occupying roots. In fact, it’s one of the last, a point made by participants as they rattled off Occupy initiatives from London to San Diego and plenty of places in between, including Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York.

Locally, protesters shared any number of projects and issue-oriented working groups to tackle everything from for-profit prisons to education and corporate personhood to foreclosure resistance. There was talk of a screen-printing guild, neighborhood assemblies (first up — Mt. Pleasant) and even a petition to ask the National Park Service to allow camping on the National Mall so that citizens can more easily lobby their representatives. (Given what happened to McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza this week, that seems unlikely.) There were mentions of protests against restaurants that under-pay their workers and against Wells Fargo for its investment in a for-profit prison where D.C. residents are sent.

There was certainly no shortage of ideas, but what seemed clear is that a movement that had expressed its unity through the place it chose to sleep is now going to have find creative ways not to splinter into a host of smaller cells pushing for myriad left-wing causes. What was evident, though, was that resolve remains for maintaining the information center and People’s Library that were allowed to stay in the park, and those may represent two of the few things holding Occupy D.C. together moving forward.