With the presidency of Donald Trump approaching, two protests were staged in Honolulu on Monday, with more planned in advance of the Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C.

“We want our voice to be heard out there,” said Arcelita Imasa, a third-year medical student at the University of Hawaii.

Imasa was one of more than 40 students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine wearing white doctor’s coats and waving signs Monday afternoon along Ala Moana Boulevard in Kakaako.

About a dozen faculty members joined the roadside protest in support of #ProtectOurPatients, a nationwide movement organized by medical students to raise awareness about the potential repeal of Obamacare.

“We want to let the community know we are taking a stand in protecting their right to health,” Imasa said.

In the afternoon, members of 350.org Hawaii and Our Revolution Hawaii waved signs and rallied at the Ala Moana Boulevard offices of Hawaii’s U.S. senators, Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, urging them to stand against climate change denial.

The event was held in conjunction with a national event to protest at senators’ offices in all 50 states, urging them to reject Trump’s “Climate Change Denial Cabinet.”

Elsewhere, Hawaii J20, a group started by students, staff, faculty and members of the wider University of Hawaii-Manoa community, is organizing a Day of Resistance scheduled for the day of the inauguration.

“Hawaii J20 wants to make it clear to the rest of the world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his agenda,” a press release from the group says.

The event, it says, will kick-start a movement “to protest the Trumpian agenda and its inherent injustices, to symbolically disrupt ‘business as usual’ and to inaugurate a new era of social activism while standing in solidarity with people in marginalized groups who are most threatened by a Trump White House.”

The UH-Manoa Faculty Senate earlier passed a resolution supporting the Day of Resistance event.

Monday’s medical student protest was organized by the students, but the school sent out a press release announcing the event, and Dr. Jerris Hedges, medical school dean, was quoted saying the school “is proud that our students hold such strong community values and will speak up for those patients who may not have a voice in the rapidly changing health care landscape.”

Dr. Will Brown, a faculty member who teaches pediatrics, said he joined the roadside protest in a move to support the students and their movement.

“It’s time we offered a universal health care service to our population,” he said, adding that he doesn’t believe Trump and the Republicans will be able to repeal and replace Obamacare with something better.