The Story

This summer Kirsten Arianejad discovered the real cost of blowing the whistle. She lost her job. Kirsten worked for Compass Airlines, a regional carrier. Kirsten loved the job and the travel, but she says the pay structure is set up in such a way that she was earning about $17,000 a year for full-time work, so little that she qualified for food stamps. also: photographer Ernesto Bazan and his book "Bazan Cuba".

Anne Bajou has an unusual perspective on the U.S. health care system. She married a doctor and spent years as the administrator in a family practice, dealing with insurance claims. She also fought a serious illness - without insurance - and returned to her native France when things got really bad.

Candace Gorman is an attorney who represents two men held at Guantanamo. She visited her clients two weeks ago. Candace tells Dick Gordon how the men reacted to the election and changing news about the U.S. detention center, and she talks about how working with her clients has changed her own life dramatically.Also in this episode, a new bike messenger tells all.

Five British men are currently being held hostage in Iraq. Thousands of others have been kidnapped and held since the beginning of the war. James Loney was one of them. James was captured in 2005. Yet he went to Iraq to carry out his belief in peace - he went to Baghdad as a member of the Christian Peacekeepers Team, intending to document human rights abuses. Also in this episode: an Olympic greeting.