Pittsburgh's Molly Rush is honored on anniversary of her nuclear warfare protest

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Pittsburgh's Molly Rush is honored on anniversary of her nuclear warfare protest

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Sep 10, 2016

5:07 AM

Pittsburgh named Sept. 9 Molly Rush Day, but this has been Molly Rush Week in the city.

On Friday, the anniversary of the day the Dormont mother of six and peace activist struck a blow against nuclear warfare, the Chatham University Women’s Institute hosted a staged reading of “Molly’s Hammer,” a play by award-winning writer Tammy Ryan and based on Liane Ellison Norman’s book, “Hammer of Justice.”

All three women attended a pre-reading reception at Chatham's Eddy Theater in Squirrel Hill. The event benefitted the Thomas Merton Center in Garfield.

The center was co-founded by Ms. Rush and Larry Kessler as a grassroots center of peace and justice in 1972.

First Published: September 10, 2016, 5:07 a.m.

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Molly Rush addresses a reception in her honor before the staged reading of Tammy Ryan's "Molly's Hammer," presented by the Women's Institute of Chatham University Friday. To her right is Antonio Lodico, head of the Thomas Merton Center. (Sharon Eberson/Post-Gazette)

Playwright Tammy Ryan, left, with peace activist Molly Rush Friday at Chatham University's Laughlin Hall before a staged reading of "Molly's Hammer," a play about Rush's protest against nuclear warfare with the Plowshares 8 on Sept. 9, 1980. (Sharon Eberson/Post-Gazette)

Kimberly Parker Green as Molly Rush, Jason McCune, left, as Bill Rush and Don DiGuilio in multiple roles in the staged reading of Tammy Ryan's "Molly's Hammer" Friday at Chatham University. Molly Rush was in attendance for the Chatham Women's Institute event on Molly Rush Day - the anniversary of the Plowshares 8 protest - in Pittsburgh. (Sharon Eberson/Post-Gazette)

From left, peace activist and Dormont mother of six Molly Rush; educator and author of the Molly Rush biography "Hammer of Justice" Liane Ellison Norman; and playwright Tammy Ryan, whose play "Molly's Hammer" had a staged reading at Chatham University on Friday. (Sharon Eberson/Post-Gazette)

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