We have squatted the house in the Esperantostraße 29 on the 31st of August. As of today more then 2/3 of the 420 houses in Manheim are empty. Rheinbau/RWE is pushing the exploitation of coal forward so dozens of villages had to vanish for profits of the industry. The people are moved to ghost towns made of steel and concrete. This happens here, in the Lausitz (another coal exploitation area in Germany and in various other places.