1998Niaz Dorry was picked by Time Magazine as “Hero of the Planet.”People and Communities, Notable People

Dorry helped organize Greenpeace’s Fish Bus Tour ’98, a 30-city caravan that crossed America from Seattle to Cape Cod promoting a campaign against factory fishing trawlers.She was jailed in 1992 for a demonstration in which she and 75 people scaled a fence at a hazardous-waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. She also helped plan the 1994 stunt in which Greenpeacers climbed the side of the Time & Life Building in New York City and hung a banner from the 20th floor decrying the use of chlorine in the making of paper.