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Rampton was born in Long Beach, California. At the age of three, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where his father worked as a musician. Raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he spent two years in Japan as a Latter-day Saint (LDS) missionary from 1976 to 1978. Upon returning to the United States, however, he left the LDS Church, influenced in part by Mormon feministFeminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. While generally providing a critique of social relations, many proponents of feminism also focus on analyzing gender inequality and the promoti Sonia JohnsonSonia Johnson (born 1936) is a feminist activist, writer and outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In the late 1970s she was publicly critical of the position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Morm.

As an undergraduate student at Princeton UniversityPrinceton University located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the eight Ivy League universities. Widely considered one of the world's most prestigious universities, it was founded as the "College of New Jersey" in 1746, and was originally located in El, Rampton studied writing under Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American novelist known for being nearly as prolific as contemporary novelist Stephen King. She teaches in the English department at Princeton University. Oates has written several books, mostly mystery novels,, E. L. DoctorowEdgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is a writer who has written several critically aclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. As of 2004, Doctorow is the current Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York and John McPheeMcPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a nonfiction writer who has ( as of 2003) written 29 books. He is also a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and many of his books include material originally written for that magazine. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, McPh. Upon graduation in 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, Rampton worked as a newspaper reporter before becoming a peace activist. During the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends and 1990s, he worked closely with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), which opposed the Reagan administration's military interventions in Central America and works to promote economic development, human rights, and mutual friendship between the people of the United States and Nicaragua. At WCCN, Rampton helped establish the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund) in 1992, which channels loans from socially concerned US investors to support microcredit and other "alternative credit" programs in Nicaragua.

In 1995, Rampton teamed with John Stauber as co-editors of PR Watch, a publication of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Defenders of the public relations industry regard their writings as one-sided and hostile. ActivistCash.com, a website hosted by Washington lobbyist Rick Berman, has castigated them as "self-anointed watchdogs," "scare-mongers," "reckless" and "left-leaning."[1] In their own profile of ActivistCash.com, however, Rampton and Stauber have stated that the ActivistCash critique contains a number of "demonstrably false claims."[2]

Rampton is also a contributor for the open content encyclopedia project called Wikipedia and was the person who coined the name " Wikimedia" which later became the name of the foundation that manages Wikipedia and its sister projects. Inspired by Wikipedia's collaborative writing model, Rampton founded Disinfopedia, another CMD project, to complement his PR Watch work to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns.