Along Beretania Street, opponents of GMO food and the Hoopili development are holding signs and waving to cars.

In the Rotunda, folks are lining up to enter the House and Senate chambers. Gerald Kato from UH Manoa has brought a media class. Joan Husted is wearing a blue HSTA shirt — “a clean one,” she jokes.

Also here are members in support of the Reinstated Kingdom of Hawaii. “We’re here to ruffle feathers,” says one. “We’re just talking the truth,” says another.