Why did an oil company go to such lengths to monitor Jess Worth’s activism? Perhaps we are more powerful than we think.
I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.
After a few years of increasingly intense activism targeting the company’s controversial entry into the tar sands, its abuse of Indigenous rights and its greenwash-soaked sponsorship of cultural institutions, I started to wonder if BP might be monitoring me.
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